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Summary: "Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of Black participation in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. Interspersed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 PINPinckney, Darryl
Summary: In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment. Pinckney reminds us that “white supremacy isn’t back; it never went away.” It is this impulse to see historically that is at the core of Busted in New York and Other Essays, which traces the lineage of black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 PINHardwick, Elizabeth
Summary: Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her. She wrote sketches for various occasions and countless essays about literature, her greatest passion. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2017