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Guide to support study of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Recommended Article
Renee, Diane. "Song of Solomon." Literature and Its Times Supplement 1: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them, by Joyce Moss, vol. 2: The Great Depression and the New Deal to Future Times (1930s -), Gale, 2003, pp. 421-430. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2875200111/GLS?u=aacc_ref&sid=GLS&xid=4204a3fd.
eBooks
50 Events That Shaped African American History –by ISBN: 9781440837869Publication Date: 2019-09-19Includes articles about the Great Migration and several events in the early Civil Rights movement.
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets –by ISBN: 9781400882977Publication Date: 2016-10-25Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism –by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780028661957Publication Date: 2013-02-01"The Encyclopedia Of Race And Racism, 2nd Edition provides critical information and context on the underlying social, economic, geographical, and political conditions that, gave rise and continue to foster racism."
Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration –by ISBN: 9781604732160Publication Date: 2009-03-13
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans –by ISBN: 9780195139457Publication Date: 2000-07-06Chapters 8 & 9 cover the period that Song of Solomon is set in.
Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City –by ISBN: 9780801488849Publication Date: 2004-01-15
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