Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia / Thomas Healy.
Record details
- ISBN: 1627798625 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781627798624 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781627798624
- ISBN: 1627798625
- Physical Description: x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-414) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : "comes the colored hour" -- "Black boy in a white land" -- Scrambled Egg -- "Look out, whitey!" -- Dreams into reality -- Klan country -- "Integration Blackwards" -- Green power -- A fresh start -- "The salad pickers" -- Naming rights -- "Theory of the sugar tit" -- Black elephants -- Present at the creation -- Cream of the crop -- Blindsided -- The battle of Soul City -- Good place to live -- Pride or prejudice -- Maseratis and microwaves -- "Sorrow's kitchen" -- Epilogue : mixed blessings. |
Summary, etc.: | "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Soul City : Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
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Soul City : Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Thomas Healy is the author of The Great Dissent , which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is a professor at Seton Hall Law School and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. A native of North Carolina, he lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.