A Great Migration Critical Reader

Through images and texts both historical and contemporary, this book looks at the Great Migration and its profound and ongoing impact.

This thoughtful interweaving of text and imagery presents a variety of perspectives on the Great Migration (1915–70), the mass exodus and dispersion of millions of African Americans out of the South. Through archival photography, newspaper clippings, maps, journal articles, book excerpts, and ephemera such as family recipes, the book immerses readers in Black history, the Great Migration, and its legacy.

Taken as a whole, this important volume provides powerful testimony to the systemic challenges such as social segregation, racism, and discrimination that Black communities have faced from the post-Emancipation period to the present moment.

Pub Date: 2022
Format: Hardback
Pages: 319
Size: 10.75(h) x 8.00(w) inches
Case Quantity: 8
ISBN: 9780300264463