Strange Fruit: Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake-1850 to the Present - Softcover

Wennersten, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735937843 ISBN 13: 9781735937847

Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC, 2021

Synopsis

This book about Somerset County and the surrounding region traces the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present. Tidewater Somerset provides us with a palette for understanding racism and the evolution of racial ideas often overlooked by scholars. The book examines specific influences and trends, as well as political and cultural developments, which have played out at the micro-level in Maryland over time, and which might test or call into question assumptions about the nature of race relations on the national level.

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About the Author

John R. Wennersten is a Curator-Consultant at the Smithsonian Institution. His fields of specialization are environmental history and environmental policy. He has been selected as Humanities Scholar for Maryland, Maryland Humanities Council; Editorial Board, Maryland Online Encyclopedia, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also serves as occasional visiting professor on water policy for the Association of Indian Science Museums in Calcutta. He is the author of many books and articles, and his current research concerns climate refugees and human rights and citizenship issues of those displaced by climate change. He lives in Washington, DC.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735937843
• ISBN 13: 9781735937847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240