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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
In the white man's land one could be comfortable; one might seize opportunities and make one's way. But one would never feel quite at home.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
As the word spread, others flocked southward. Even John James Audubon was a frequent visitor, drawn by the seemingly limitless flocks of sea and shore birds in the area.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
When economic forces carry sojourners from a poorer area to a richer one, the fortune seekers are usually men. But the Puerto Rican Great Migration was strikingly female—in the half decade after World War II it was 59 percent so. That was partly because foreign women had a harder time crossing U.S. borders, which left an opening for Puerto Rican wo
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
These are people of personal courage and conviction, secure within themselves, willing to break convention, not reliant on the approval of others for their sense of self, people of deep and abiding empathy and compassion. They are what many of us might wish to be but not nearly enough of us are. Perhaps, once awakened, more of us will be.