"The Zora Neale Hurston of her generation." -Studio 360 "A truly
rare cultural phenomenon: an artist who not only holds up a mirror
to society, but makes herself a catalyst to change it." -Chicago
Tribune The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the
riots that comprised the "Red Summer" of violence across the
nation's cities, is an event that has shaped the last century but
is widely unknown. 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. Eve L. Ewing is a writer and an assistant
professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service
Administration. She is the author of Electric Arches and Ghosts in
the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side.
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