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Title details for Making Our Way Home by Blair Imani - Available

Making Our Way Home

The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

by Blair Imani
Patrisse Cullors
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A powerful history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop.
Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life—a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of The Great Migration and how it affected—and continues to affect—Black identity and America as a whole.
Making Our Way Home explores issues like voting rights, domestic terrorism, discrimination, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture, activism, and civil rights. Imani shows how these influences shaped America's workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events, relevant data, and family histories. The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular record of this powerful journey.
This audiobook includes a glossary of key historical terms, people, and events.

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  • Release date

    January 14, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593286661
      • File size: 161424 KB
      • Duration: 05:36:17

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Adopting a slow and even pace, Tay Zonday narrates this twentieth-century history of the African-American Great Migration. The author focuses on politics and the crimes against blacks in the Southern states. Blair Imani's bright tones add a personal touch to the introduction and conclusion, connecting this historic migration to her own family. Patrisse Cullors's grave reading of the foreword contrasts sharply with Imani's delivery. Both Imani and Cullors recount historic events within their grandmothers' lifetimes. All the narrators, particularly Zonday, speak slowly and clearly as they explain how and why black Americans moved across the country and the panoply of lawsuits that were part and parcel of the Civil Rights movement. Well suited for YA and adult audiences, the audiobook concludes with a recitation of the glossary and biographical sketches. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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