1919

Name: 1919
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Eve L. Ewing
ISBN: 9781541433083

Author: Eve L. Ewing

Narrator: Eve L. Ewing

Unabridged: 1 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/21/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Fiction, Poetry, African American & Black Poetry

Synopsis

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries—through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history, and illuminates the thin line between the past and the present.

About Eve L. Ewing

Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the author of Electric Arches, which received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was named one of the year's best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. She is also author of Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side and coauthor, with Nate Marshall, of No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of social service administration. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other venues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

“If there was racial harmony and equality in the year 2019, maybe we wouldn’t need to talk about the race riots of 1919”—Peter Cole City in a Garden (after Carl Sandburg) The Negro crowd from Twenty-ninth Street got into action, and white men who came in contact with it were beaten. . . Farther to the......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)

A history lesson in the form of poetry. 1919 is a brief poetry collection based on historical accounts of the Chicago race riots of the eponymous year 1919. It's a cool approach and overall I found the poems to be interesting and moving. Thank you to Libro.FM for providing a free audio copy for Blac......more

Goodreads review by Allison

I absolutely love poetry collections that deeply focus around one historical event or close theme, and this book is no different. Eve L. Ewing explores the Chicago race riot of 1919 through poetry, with poems tracing the lead-up, the riot, and it's effects. With quotes from the 1922 study "The Negro......more

Goodreads review by Deborah

In 1919, race riots roared through Chicago killing 23 blacks and 5 whites, injuring 537, and leaving 1,000 homeless. 5,000 to 6,000 National Guard were called to restore order. 17-year-old Eugene Williams was swimming in Lake Michigan when he was killed by thrown rocks after drifting toward a “white......more