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Violent Utopia - Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Hardcover)
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Violent Utopia - Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Hardcover)
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In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and
afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the
post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian
Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He
focuses on how the massacre in Tulsa's Greenwood
neighborhood-colloquially known as Black Wall Street-curtailed the
freedom built there. Rather than framing the massacre as a one-off
event, Lewis places it in a larger historical and social context of
widespread patterns of anti-Black racism, segregation, and
dispossession in Tulsa and beyond. He shows how the processes that
led to the massacre, subsequent urban renewal, and
intergenerational poverty shored up by nonprofits constitute a form
of continuous slow violence. Now, in their attempts to redevelop
resources for self-determination, Black Tulsans must reconcile a
double inheritance: the massacre's violence and the historical
freedom and prosperity that Greenwood represented. Their future is
tied to their geography, which is the foundation from which they
will repair and fulfill Greenwood's promise.
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