Buried in the Bitter Waters : : the Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
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submitted by sdunav on July 15, 2016, 10:08am
This is a compelling and heartbreaking collection of fine-grained history of several different communities where African-Americans were driven out by vicious mobs. It's interesting how Jaspin did his research, too - he looked at census records (mostly from the early 1900's), and found places where Black (but not white) people left the area in droves between the 10 year census takings. Then he did some research to find out what was behind this.
Unlike the lynchings and race riots in this period, the (slightly) less deadly but very far-reaching "racial cleansing" left a very permanent history in the ethnic make-up of these places - Jaspin focuses especially on Forsythe Co., GA. What happened when he started writing about this in the Atlanta newspaper is basically the last chapter of his book. It doesn't quite fit with the historical tone of the rest of the book, but after reading it I can certainly see why he included it.
This would make a wonderful follow-up to "Arc of Justice", by Kevin Boyle (which was about something similar in one Detroit neighborhood). And it does a lot to explain population patterns today
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New York : Basic Books, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: vii, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465036363
0465036368
SUBJECTS
African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Racism -- History.
United States -- Race relations.