Name: Black California Gold (The Griot Project Book Series) (en Inglés)
SKU: 63977729
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Author: Wendy M. Thompson
ISBN: 9781684485512

portada Black California Gold (The Griot Project Book Series) (en Inglés)

Black California Gold (The Griot Project Book Series) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Bucknell University Press

Autor

Wendy M. Thompson

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

130

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781684485512

Black California Gold (The Griot Project Book Series) (en Inglés)

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For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold--promising easy riches but frequently resulting in dispossession and displacement. Poet Wendy M. Thompson is descended from two of these migrant waves--post-1965 Chinese immigrants and Black southerners of the Second Great Migration--whose presence has permanently transformed the region. In this arresting debut poetry collection, Thompson traces the past and present of California's Bay Area, exploring themes of family, migration, girlhood, and identity against a backdrop of urban redevelopment, advanced gentrification, and the erasure of Black communities. Traveling down both familiar highways and obscure side streets, her poems map a region where race, class, and language are just some of the fault lines that divide communities and produce periodic tremors of violence and resistance. Confronting assimilationist myths of the American Dream, Black California Gold depicts a setting that is less a melting pot than a smelting pot, subjecting different ethnic groups to searing trials and extreme pressures that threaten to break them down entirely. Yet, it also celebrates the Black residents of the Bay Area who have struggled to sustain home and hope amid increasingly desperate conditions.