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Blake Gumprecht

人物简介:

Blake Gumprecht taught geography for more than two decades at the University of New Hampshire, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of two previous books, The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth and The American College Town, both of which won the American Association of Geographers' J. B. Jackson Prize. He now lives and writes in El Paso, Texas.

North to Boston书籍相关信息

  • ISBN:9780197614440
  • 作者:Blake Gumprecht
  • 出版社:© Oxford University Press
  • 出版时间:暂无出版时间
  • 页数:240
  • 价格:£18.99
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  • 装帧:Paperback
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  • 适合人群:青少年读者,历史爱好者,文学爱好者,对美国独立战争感兴趣的读者,对经典文学作品感兴趣的读者
  • TAG:历史小说 / 文学经典 / 冒险 / 探险文学 / 美国历史 / 革命题材
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  • 更新时间:2025-05-18 17:33:53

内容简介:

Between World War II and 1980, tens of thousands of Black people moved to Boston from the South as part of the Great Migration, one of the most consequential mass movements of people in American history. Black migration from the South transformed the city, as it did urban areas across the country. North to Boston is the first book to examine that important subject. Blake Gumprecht traces the history of this migration and explores its impacts in greater depth through the lives of ten individuals, each the subject of one chapter. Those chapters are short biographies based on extensive interviews by the author and are told in an engaging style that reflects the author's background as a journalist. The ten people featured came from six southern states. They fled racism, limited opportunity, and hopelessness, and moved north in pursuit of better jobs, equal treatment, and greater freedom. They settled in neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. They worked as teachers, factory workers, welders, and security guards. Their stories are emblematic of the experiences of Black people everywhere who left the South, and provide a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary people living in one city's Black community. North to Boston brings to life the history of the Great Migration, revealing a hidden aspect of New England's history and shining a spotlight on a singularly important event in the making of Black Boston.