John R. Wennersten

Strange Fruit (eBook, ePUB)

Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake-1850 to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author: "I have written this book about Somerset County and the surrounding region with a specific purpose in mind - to trace the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present. Tidewater Somerset provides us with a palette for understanding racism and the evolution of racial ideas often overlooked by scholars. I have sought to ascertain what specific influences and trends, as well as political and cultural developments have played out at the micro-level in Maryland over time that might test or call into question assumptions about the nature of race relations that we have on the national level. My remarks, both scholarly and personal, will help us find our way in the story of race in the Chesapeake Bay country. Race provides the scaffolding, the frame that forms the underside of our national story. And in this story we will see Black actors in the human drama of oppression and freedom living lives that are both critical and self-aware." This is a book about Somerset County and the surrounding region, which traces the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present. Tidewater Somerset provides us with a palette for understanding racism and the evolution of racial ideas often overlooked by scholars. The book examines specific influences and trends, as well as political and cultural developments, which have played out at the micro-level in Maryland over time, and which might test or call into question assumptions about the nature of race relations at the national level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Academia Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798987589311
• Artikelnr.: 70127457

Autorenporträt

John R. Wennersten is a Curator-Consultant at the Smithsonian Institution. His fields of specialization are environmental history and environmental policy. He has been selected as Humanities Scholar for Maryland, Maryland Humanities Council; Editorial Board, Maryland Online Encyclopedia, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also serves as occasional visiting professor on water policy for the Association of Indian Science Museums in Calcutta. He is the author of many books and articles, and his current research concerns climate refugees and human rights and citizenship issues of those displaced by climate change. He lives in Washington, DC.