In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.
Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
發表於2024-12-23
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在這部宏大的著作中,Isabel Wilkerson描述瞭世人所不甚瞭解的美國黑人長達幾十年的大遷移的曆史。為瞭尋找更好的生活,美國西南部的黑人在1915年至1970年之間的幾十年,背井離鄉來到東部城市生活。這次大遷徙大大地改變瞭人們的生活,也改變瞭美國的格局和麵貌。 ...
評分在這部宏大的著作中,Isabel Wilkerson描述瞭世人所不甚瞭解的美國黑人長達幾十年的大遷移的曆史。為瞭尋找更好的生活,美國西南部的黑人在1915年至1970年之間的幾十年,背井離鄉來到東部城市生活。這次大遷徙大大地改變瞭人們的生活,也改變瞭美國的格局和麵貌。 ...
評分在這部宏大的著作中,Isabel Wilkerson描述瞭世人所不甚瞭解的美國黑人長達幾十年的大遷移的曆史。為瞭尋找更好的生活,美國西南部的黑人在1915年至1970年之間的幾十年,背井離鄉來到東部城市生活。這次大遷徙大大地改變瞭人們的生活,也改變瞭美國的格局和麵貌。 ...
評分在這部宏大的著作中,Isabel Wilkerson描述瞭世人所不甚瞭解的美國黑人長達幾十年的大遷移的曆史。為瞭尋找更好的生活,美國西南部的黑人在1915年至1970年之間的幾十年,背井離鄉來到東部城市生活。這次大遷徙大大地改變瞭人們的生活,也改變瞭美國的格局和麵貌。 ...
評分在這部宏大的著作中,Isabel Wilkerson描述瞭世人所不甚瞭解的美國黑人長達幾十年的大遷移的曆史。為瞭尋找更好的生活,美國西南部的黑人在1915年至1970年之間的幾十年,背井離鄉來到東部城市生活。這次大遷徙大大地改變瞭人們的生活,也改變瞭美國的格局和麵貌。 ...
圖書標籤: 曆史 美國 種族 History 紀實 社會學 黑人西進 移民
普通人的生平在一個不普通的曆史時期也能像傳奇一樣。講故事的方法類似evicted,但感覺勝於evicted
評分George Swanson Starling的去世令人動容。後1/3更好看
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評分近期看過的最好看的一本書。作者的文筆真好。
評分普通人的生平在一個不普通的曆史時期也能像傳奇一樣。講故事的方法類似evicted,但感覺勝於evicted
The Warmth of Other Suns 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載