Ralph Ellison in context:

"Lewis and Ida Ellison settled in Oklahoma City in 1910, a few years before the birth of their first son Ralph Waldo on March 1, 1913. They had migrated west from South Carolina, like many African Americans from the deep South, in hopes of opportunity and an escape from racial violence in a new...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"Lewis and Ida Ellison settled in Oklahoma City in 1910, a few years before the birth of their first son Ralph Waldo on March 1, 1913. They had migrated west from South Carolina, like many African Americans from the deep South, in hopes of opportunity and an escape from racial violence in a new state not yet under the hold of Jim Crow. Oklahoma had only been a U.S. state for three years when they arrived. Before 1907, it was Oklahoma Territory, and before that, Indian Territory (1830s-1890), occupied and managed by some three dozen tribes native to or relocated to the region prior to the Civil War. "The Territory" had come to be a haven for famous outlaws, but for many it also represented possibility: a chance for new immigrants to find good work in an unbiased setting, like the Italians who mined coal for the Choctaw Nation; freedom from the status quo for those who felt confined by the social mores of the northeast; a chance for single women to own property; and space for new communities, such as the approximately fifty, self-governing all-black towns and settlements that dotted the pan-shaped map"--
Beschreibung:xviii, 410 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781108488969
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