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What is masterful about this book is how it draws you in like a novel. I almost wasn't going to read it, afraid it would be another earnest sociological study with all the juice sucked out of it. What's disturbing to me, is how much of it was around into the 1950's. I was born in 1935. I graduated from high school in 1953. I was living in the San Fernando Valley, which she says did a good job of keeping blacks out.
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Why didn't I know any of this? I must have been walking around in my own safe whit ...more
This is a long read, with a slow start, but ultimately very rewarding and worth the read. It was extremely illuminating for me as a Canadian to fully grasp the reality of the post-slavery era in both south and north of the US, and in particular, the truly dehumanizing awfulness of the Jim Crown south. The hatefulness and degradation of it is so appalling, it seems so hard to believe that regular white people could be so complicit, but to me it is so profoundly important to really grasp that YES,
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Just read this. Amazing, poignant, hopeful, tragic, uplifting, eye-opening... depending upon whose story you're reading, it's everything. Read it. Do it.
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