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Bezig met laden... Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream (2020)door Blair Imani, Rachelle Baker (Illustrator)
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"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 with illustrations, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of The Great Migration and how it affected--and continues to affect--Black identity and America as a whole. Making Our Way Home explores issues like voting rights, domestic terrorism, discrimination, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture, activism, and civil rights. Imani shows how these influences shaped America's workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events, relevant data, and family histories. The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular record of this powerful journey"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.9History and Geography North America United States 1901-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I was most engaged with the book in the beginning as it discussed the First Great Migration from the 1910s through the 1930s, outlining the reasons millions of Black Americans moved from the rural American South to urban centers in the North and on the West Coast and the initial impacts this had on them and the regions where they moved.
But the book is more a survey than an in-depth study so it moves briskly on to subsequent decades giving brief overviews that don't really dig into the subject and even start to wander away from details about the direct causes and impacts of the Second Great Migration from the 1940s through the 1970s as the narrative becomes more a general review of the Civil Rights movement and the accomplishments of Black Americans, most of which I am already familiar with and thus found less engaging, important as they are.
Still, this would be a great introduction for younger readers or someone unfamiliar with the subject.
The illustrations are nice and help break up the text so it doesn't become too burdensome, but they are sort of static, being mostly head-and-shoulder portraits of the people mentioned. The art is a bit stiff and formal as every image is heavily photo-referenced. I do not see original photo image credits in the indicia, but I was able to find the actual photographs for many of the illustrations with pretty simple Google searches. ( )