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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the northern states.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
19 CDs (22 hrs., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From 1915 to 1970, roughly six million African-American citizens fled the South for improved lives in northern and western America. Comparing this rarely discussed exodus to other great migrations in history while culling data from interviews and historical records, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long journey that greatly altered the cultural landscape of America.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed cultural critic presents the story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
288 pages
Language
English
Description
"In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching back more than 100,000 years....
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
137 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to the West looking for a better life.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting exploration of the intersecting lines of Jewish and indigenous Latin American thought and culture, by way of a family memoir. In Our America, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents' exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated...
Author
Publisher
Heyday Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xv, 143 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Along the Perfume River lives an old woman who has never left her village, who has raised children and grandchildren, never having seen the other side of the river. A nightclub owner from Vietnam travels the world, hobnobbing with international celebrities. A young man goes to college in America, only to return to Vietnam with made-up stories and forged photographs of himself with President Clinton. And another grows up both an American teenager...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intrepid journalist joins the planet's largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries. Anna Badkhen has forged a career chronicling life in extremis around the world, from war-torn Afghanistan to the border regions of the American Southwest. In Walking with Abel, she embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys--nomadic herders in Mali's Sahel grasslands--as they embark on their annual migration across...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 654 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and...
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