About this title: An examination of the great black migration and how it changed America. The author points out that the 20th-century migration of five million people from the rural South to the urban North changed America into a place where race relations affected the texture of life everywhere.
Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780394560045ISBN:0394560043
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Ex-library. Nice hard cover, lightly read, acetate over dust jacket, library stamps & stickers, stk #2611d9. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 410 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1992-03-31
ISBN-13:9780679733478ISBN:0679733477
Description: Used: Good. Used Book; Good Condition; Pages Are Tanned Due To Aging Of Book; Slight Wear To Edges From Being Read & Stored; Previous Owners Name On Inside First Page; Overall Good Condition; read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780394560045ISBN:0394560043
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"This book written in the early 1990's traces the black migration to Chicago from Mississippi and is a fascinating read. Lemann uses three or four different families to trace what happened when the cotton picking machine made sharecropper labor in the cotton fields obsolete. He also covers very well the public programs instituted to relieve the ghettos, most of which did not work very well and he explains why the programs did not work well."
"Lemann doesn't add much original research in this book, and his narratives of individual migrants quickly become repetitive and confusing farragos of drugs, unemployment, and dysfunction, but his story of the Washington battles over the Great Society programs is second to none. His discussion of the disastrous Community Action Program alone makes the book worthwhile.
His treatment of these programs, as befits a journalist, is very evenhanded, conceding the ineradicable dysfunctions of ghetto communities while identifying those Great Society programs that might actually have had a beneficial effect on the black poor they were semi-surreptiously designed to help."
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
rating
