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17%OFFPeter M. Rutkoff - Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations - 9781421418476 - V9781421418476
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Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations

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Description for Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations Paperback. Broad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history. Num Pages: 432 pages, 75, 66 black & white halftones, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. .
The Great Migration-the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century-shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. In Fly Away, Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott trace the ideas that inspired African Americans to abandon the South for freedom and opportunity elsewhere. Black southerners fled the Low Country of South Carolina, the mines and mills of Birmingham, Alabama, the farms of the Mississippi Delta, and the urban wards of Houston, Texas, for new opportunities in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They took with them ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418476
SKU
V9781421418476
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About Peter M. Rutkoff
Peter M. Rutkoff is a professor of American studies at Kenyon College. William B. Scott is professor emeritus of history at Kenyon College. They are the coauthors of New York Modern: The Arts and the City.

Reviews for Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations
A grand work... An engaging and entertaining volume that ought to be of interest to anyone with a curiosity about African American migration and African American cultural contributions to American culture. Geographical Review As Rutkoff and Scott take the reader to Chicago's Bud Billiken Day or Houston's Juneteenth, August Wilson's Pittsburgh, or Walter Mosley's Los Angeles, 'the flashes of the ... Read more

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