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Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia / Thomas Healy.

Author/creator Healy, Thomas author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Copyright Notice ©2021
Descriptionx, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Portion of title Race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia
Contents Prologue : "comes the colored hour" -- "Black boy in a white land" -- Scrambled Egg -- "Look out, whitey!" -- Dreams into reality -- 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 -- "Sorrow's kitchen" -- Epilogue : mixed blessings.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [345]-414) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Healy, Thomas. Soul city First edition. New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2021] 9781627798617
Genre/formBiography.
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Genre/formHistory.
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LCCN 2020034252
ISBN9781627798624 hardcover
ISBN1627798625 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
Standard identifier# 40030391818

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