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Black California Gold.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Wendy M.
- Series:
- The Griot Project Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold--promising easy riches but frequently resulting in dispossession and displacement.Poet Wendy M.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part 1: County Maps
- Black California Gold
- Part 2: Black in California
- Black California Freedom
- Black Southern Migrant Gifts
- Earth 地球 Mother 妈妈 Father 爸爸 Race 种族
- Catch the Spirit
- Small Girl Smell
- My Mother in English
- San Francisco (an Ode to Harlem of the West)
- Part 3: In Oakland, there was once a forest of old-growth coastal redwoods
- Black Garden Songs
- A Delight (The Food Poem)
- Family Money: A Prescription Told in Voices
- California Wildfires, 2020
- The Thing about Nature
- Black on BART
- Part 4: California Blackout
- Black at Home in the Bay Area
- Investors Leave No Landmarks
- Life and Death in the Time of Black Lives Matter
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-68448-552-5
- OCLC:
- 1506270264
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