American Beach : a saga of race, wealth, and memory / Russ Rymer.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 1998وصف:xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0060174838
- F319.A45 R96 1998
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | F319.A45 R96 1998 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000104344 |
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In American Beach, journalist Russ Rymer provides astonishing insights into the meaning of American race relations. Avoiding the easy cliche of victimhood and oppression, he searches for answers through three unexpected, overlapping, intensely personal stories. Ultimately he presents a vision of a nation where the futures of blacks and whites are as linked as their histories, and where black experience offers a key to the struggle of every modern American.
American Beach opens with the killing of an unarmed black motorist by white police on a Florida resort island. It's the emblematic race confrontation of the 1990s, but Rymer's examination turns up everything but the ordinary. His journey leads us through ghostly plantation cemeteries, seance parlors, black resorts, European opera houses, Harlem salons, America's newest town, and its oldest incorporated black city.
Along the way, we are guided by the most extraordinary real-life Southern cast since Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, including Florida's first black millionaire and his great-granddaughter, a flamboyant pauper who lives on a chaise lounge on the beach, from whence she strives to salvage her history and rescue her imperiled culture. As Rymer shows, no matter what corner of America or which walk of life we may be from, it's our culture and our history as well.