Cover image for Soul City :
Title :
Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia / Thomas Healy.
Title:
Soul City :
Varying Form of Title:
Race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia
Author:
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781627798624
Production / Publication Information:
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Contents:
Black Boy in a White Land -- Scrambled Egg -- Look Out Whitey -- Dreams Into Reality -- Welcome to Klan Country -- Integration Blackwards -- Green Power -- A Fresh Start -- The Salad Pickers -- Naming Rights -- Theory of the Sugar Tit -- Black Elephants -- Present at the Creation -- Cream of the Crop -- Blindsided -- The Battle of Soul City -- Good Place to Live -- Pride or Prejudice -- Maseratis and Microwaves -- Sorrows Kitchen -- Epilogue: Mixed Blessings.
Summary:
"A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
Bibliography note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language:
English
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