Summary
Deeply moving and solidly researched, the vivid poetic retelling of a traumatic event in the histories of migration and racial disintegration.
In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it.
This most intense of the riots of the USA’s ‘Red Summer’ lasted eight days, resulting in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries; i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141991979 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141991976 |
| Author: | Eve Ewing |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 91g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 153mm x 6mm |
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About The Author
Eve Ewing
Eve L. Ewing is a writer and sociologist from Chicago. Her works include the nonfiction book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, the multi-award-winning poetry collection Electric Arches, and the Ironheart series, along with other titles for Marvel Comics. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
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