Book review: Violent utopia: dispossession and black restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis

Cryer, Thomas (2022) Book review: Violent utopia: dispossession and black restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis. LSE Review of Books (31 Oct 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa, Jovan Scott Lewis explores the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in the city’s Greenwood neighbourhood (known colloquially as ‘Black Wall Street’) and its legacies today, including contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. Rooted in ethnographic sensitivity, this is a detailed, expansive and stirring examination of Greenwood’s history and the inexhaustible pursuit of place-based freedom, writes Thomas Cryer. Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa. Jovan Scott Lewis. Duke University Press. 2022.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) E History America > E151 United States (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2023 15:18
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:37
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/117844

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