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Phillips, Patrick

 
9780393293012: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
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ISBN 10: 0393293017 ISBN 13: 9780393293012
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2016

Sinopsis

In 1912, a young girl’s murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth “whites-only” and sent 1,100 citizens running for their lives, slowly erasing all evidence of their crime. Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale, spanning the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the promise of Reconstruction and the crushing injustice of Forsyth’s racial cleansing. The story continues, including a violent attack on civil rights activists in 1987 as residents fought to “Keep Forsyth White”, well into the 1990s. Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that shapes America in the twenty-first century.

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Acerca del autor

Patrick Phillips is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow, his poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Stanford University.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393293017
ISBN 13 
9780393293012
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
320
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9780393354737: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

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ISBN 10:  0393354733 ISBN 13:  9780393354737
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2017
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