Includes an All-New Afterword. An unflinching account of America's
most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as
America finally comes to terms with its racial past. When first
published in 2001, society apparently wasn't ready for such an
unstinting narrative. After it was published, The Burning, like its
subject matter, remained unknown to most in America. That has
changed dramatically. "I began to suspect that a crucial piece
remained missing from America's long attempts at racial
reconciliation," Madigan wrote in 2001 in the author's note to The
Burning. "Too many in this country remained as ignorant as I was.
Too many were just as oblivious to some of the darkest moments in
our history, a legacy of which Tulsa is both a tragic example and a
shameful metaphor. How can we heal when we don't know what we're
healing from?" Now, 100 years after the massacre, Madigan brings
new resonance to these questions in the reissue of this definitive
work of American history. Featuring a brand new afterword, The
Burning skillfully places the Tulsa Massacre in a broader
historical context. Rather than an exception, the massacre was
completely consistent with that time in the United States, an era
of Jim Crow, widespread lynching, and racism endorsed and
promulgated at the highest levels of society. Such were the
foundations of the systemic racism at the root of our problems
today. On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the
thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing Black from
white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a Black community then
celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. 34 square blocks of
Tulsa's Greenwood community, known then as the Negro Wall Street of
America, were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, 100 years
later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre
is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the
number of dead at about 100 (75% of the victims are believed to
have been Black), but the actual number of casualties could be
triple that. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed to determine
exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the
historic Greenwood Community would be good public policy and do
much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this most
terrible incident in our shared past. With chilling details,
humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The
Burning recreates the town of Greenwood at the height of its
prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust
between its Black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white
population, narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's
annihilation, and documents the subsequent silence that surrounded
the tragedy.
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