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An edition of The Warmth of Other Suns (2010)

The warmth of other suns

the epic story of America's great migration

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  • ★★★★ ★ 4.6 (7 ratings) ·
  • 141 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and offical records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. - Back cover.

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Vintage Books
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English
Pages
632

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New York Times bestseller, nyt:hardcover_nonfiction=2010-09-05, African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century, Rural-urban migration, History, African Americans, Internal Migration, Migrations, African americans, history, Migration, internal, New York Times reviewed, African americans--migrations--history, African americans--migrations--history--20th century, Migration, internal--history, Migration, internal--united states--history--20th century, Rural-urban migration--history, Rural-urban migration--united states--history--20th century, E185.6 .w685 2010, 304.80973, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2011-10-15, Binnenwanderung, Schwarze, HISTORY / African American, Historia, Migration, Urbanisering, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Afro-amerikaner, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970, Human Migration, History, 20th Century, Exode rural, Histoire, Noirs américains, Médecine, African American, United States, Society

People

Ida Mae Gladney, Barack Obama (1961-), George Starling, Robert Foster

Places

United States, Mississippi, Chicago, Illinois, Florida, Harlem, Louisiana

Times

20th century, 1915-1970, 1937, 1945, 1953

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Table of Contents

Part 1 : In the land of the forefathers.
Leaving
The Great Migration, 1915-1970
Part 2 : Beginnings.
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
The stirrings of discontent
George Swanson Starling
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
A burdensome labor
The awakening
Breaking away
Part 3 : Exodus.
The appointed time of their coming
Crossing over
Part 4 : The kinder mistress.
Chicago
New York
Los Angeles
The things they left behind
Transplanted in alien soil
Divisions
To bend in strange winds
The other side of Jordan
Complications
The river keeps running
The prodigals
Disillusionment
Revolutions
The fullness of the migration
Part 5 : Aftermath.
In the places they left
Losses
More North and West than South
Redemption
And, perhaps, to bloom
The winter of their lives
The emancipation of Ida Mae
Epilogue
Notes on methodology
Afterword

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
x, 622 p.
Number of pages
632
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

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OL25083290M
ISBN 10
0679763880
ISBN 13
9780679763888

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June 4, 2020 Edited by Lisa Merge works
June 26, 2017 Edited by Bryan Tyson Edited without comment.
October 31, 2011 Edited by menolly42 Added publisher location, subtitle, pagination
October 31, 2011 Edited by menolly42 Added new cover
October 31, 2011 Created by menolly42 Added new book.