12%OFF
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips
€ 27.99
€ 24.57
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Hardcover. A gripping tale of racial cleansing in the American South and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
In 1912, a young girl's murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth whites-only and sent 1,100 citizens running for their lives, slowly erasing all evidence of their crime. Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale, spanning the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the promise of Reconstruction and the crushing injustice of Forsyth's racial cleansing. The story continues, including a violent attack on civil rights activists in 1987 as residents fought to Keep ... Read more
In 1912, a young girl's murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth whites-only and sent 1,100 citizens running for their lives, slowly erasing all evidence of their crime. Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale, spanning the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the promise of Reconstruction and the crushing injustice of Forsyth's racial cleansing. The story continues, including a violent attack on civil rights activists in 1987 as residents fought to Keep ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
625g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393293012
SKU
V9780393293012
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Patrick Phillips
Patrick Phillips is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor. A Guggenheim and NEA Fellow, his poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University.
Reviews for Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
In gripping and devastating detail, writer and poet Phillips uncovers a history of lynching, racial violence, terrorism, and white supremacy... There are few heroes in this accounting, which stands as a sobering reminder that the racial fantasies and fears that have ruled so much of our history only continue to haunt the present.
Library Journal This is ... Read more
Library Journal This is ... Read more