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ISBN-10: 1948742691
ISBN-13: 9781948742696
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Publish Date: 09/01/2020
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H

Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest

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Overview

An ambitious, honest portrait of the Black experience in flyover country. One of The St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Best Books of 2020.

Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and accompanying economic decline that have become so synonymous with the Midwest. After the 2016 election, many traditional media outlets renewed their attention on the conditions of “Middle America,” but they often marginalized or completely overlooked the experience of the Black people who live there.

Edited by Terrion Williamson, the director of the Black Midwest Initiative, Black in the Middle places the voices of Black midwesterners front and center. Filled with compelling personal narratives, thought-provoking art, and searing commentaries, this anthology explores the various meanings and experiences of blackness throughout the Rust Belt, the Midwest, and the Great Plains. It brings together people from major metropolitan centers like Detroit and Chicago as well as smaller cities and rural areas where the lives of Black residents have too often gone unacknowledged to create “a timely, compelling collection that allows predominantly Black Midwesterners to reclaim their home, histories, and future.”

A much-needed corrective to common narratives about the Midwest.

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Reviews
A rare anthology in that its subject is Black and lives in the Midwest. Through well-crafted essays, poems, photography and other musings on everyday life, the collection shares the inner workings of some families who make due with what little they are given or who build a future on their own terms.–Jane Henderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2020
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Details

ISBN-10: 1948742691
ISBN-13: 9781948742696
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Publish Date: 09/01/2020
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H
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