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Requiem for the massacre : a Black history on the conflict, hope, and fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
- Title
- Requiem for the massacre : a Black history on the conflict, hope, and fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre / RJ Young.
- Author
- Young, R. J. (Writer)
- Publication
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- 318 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the racial tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American history"--
- "More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ignored, covered up, and diminished by those in power and in a position to preserve the status quo. Blending memoir and immersive journalism, RJ Young shows how, today, Tulsa combats its racist past while remaining all too tolerant of racial injustice.Requiem for the Massacre is a cultural excavation of Tulsa one hundred years after one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. Young focuses on unearthing the narrative surrounding previously all-Black Greenwood district while challenging an apocryphal narrative that includes so-called Black Wall Street, Booker T. Washington, and Black exceptionalism. Young provides a firsthand account of the centennial events commemorating Tulsa's darkest day as the city attempts to reckon with its self-image, commercialization of its atrocity, and the aftermath of the massacre that shows how things have changed and how they have stayed woefully the same..." --
- Alternative Title
- Black history on the conflict, hope, and fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
- Subject
- Young, R. J. (Writer)
- 1921
- African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > Biography
- African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > Social conditions
- Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921
- African Americans
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Tulsa (Okla.) > Race relations > History
- Tulsa (Okla.) > Biography
- Tulsa (Okla.) > Social conditions
- Oklahoma > Tulsa
- Oklahoma
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318).
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-715
- ISBN
- 9781640095021
- 1640095020
- 9781640095038 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022016663
- OCLC
- 1296165780
- Author
- Young, R. J. (Writer), author.
- Title
- Requiem for the massacre : a Black history on the conflict, hope, and fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre / RJ Young.
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First Counterpoint edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318).
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- 1921
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-715