Ain’t Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left
Title : Ain’t Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Paperback: 252 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition (March 17, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 1469614022 ISBN-13: 978-1469614021 Description : Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these Depression-era migrations as interconnected responses to the capitalist collapse and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Battat shows, writers and artists of both races created migration stories specifically to bolster the black-white Left alliance. Defying rigid critical categories, Battat considers a wide variety of media, including literary cl...