tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post6302034591016691616..comments2024-03-10T09:24:45.565+02:00Comments on Dispatches from Vilnius: Warmth of Other SunsJames Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-661014119033803782011-09-14T07:42:40.124+03:002011-09-14T07:42:40.124+03:00Read about 100 pages of the book and am sorry to s...Read about 100 pages of the book and am sorry to say I don't think it is worth adding to our reading list. It has an endless array of anecdotes and gives a superficial account of these victims lives. Perhaps if there had been more in-depth analysis of certain people, and how they impacted society, it would have been more interesting.<br /><br />I am reminded of Gordon Parks book ''ATripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-32799417794389976842011-08-31T15:16:01.732+03:002011-08-31T15:16:01.732+03:00Good the book from the library. So far, it's j...Good the book from the library. So far, it's just a collection of anecdotes (some of which I can relate to). Will continue to read and see how it's like.Tripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-78559821300151273302011-08-29T15:06:54.728+03:002011-08-29T15:06:54.728+03:00''3000 views per month to around 800'&...''3000 views per month to around 800''<br /><br />To tell you the truth, it is likely that most of those were mine!Tripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-7537336438503567162011-08-29T08:16:35.048+03:002011-08-29T08:16:35.048+03:00I posted Walt Whitman's America, Warmth of Oth...I posted Walt Whitman's America, Warmth of Other Suns and The Coming of the New Deal as suggested reading material in the side margin. I also asked readers to post any other suggestions that appeal to them. Summer is usually not a good time for a reading group, but given that it will soon be September, hopefully there will be more interest.<br /><br />As a whole, interest in this forum has James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-22781012531618601172011-08-29T01:15:29.830+03:002011-08-29T01:15:29.830+03:00I returned the Whitman book since it was not put o...I returned the Whitman book since it was not put on our reading agenda. I'll try Wilkerson to see if how it's like.Tripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-71870980764771260082010-11-08T19:26:51.064+02:002010-11-08T19:26:51.064+02:00Yes, Marti, there was a major riot in Atlanta in 1...Yes, Marti, there was a major riot in Atlanta in 1906. Here is a brief description from an article published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly in 2008:<br /><br />During the summer of 1906, residents found themselves in the midst of a fierce political campaign to determine who would be the next governor of Georgia. Both candidates in the Democratic primary made the disenfranchisement of Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343768762996537750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-68104020234155821062010-11-07T16:16:56.802+02:002010-11-07T16:16:56.802+02:00I hope the book is as good as the two I'm read...I hope the book is as good as the two I'm reading -- I really like Eugene Robinson.<br /><br />I reached the point in the book on migrant labor on picking the Texas cotton crop, which overlaps what I'm reading in Wilkerson. At some point -- I think the early teens -- the cotton workforce threatened to strike unless they got $1 (a bag or however it was measured). The movement was led by avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-1574053612446692152010-11-07T06:32:40.197+02:002010-11-07T06:32:40.197+02:00The Warmth of Other Sons is on my to-read list. H...The Warmth of Other Sons is on my to-read list. Haven't bought it yet. <br /><br />Last night I started reading Eugene Robinson's book, Disintegration - The Splintering of Black America. Borrowed it from NYPL (ebook). In part of what I've read so far, he writes about the migration. Also has a chapter about Atlanta in 1906, when there was a big riot against Black population after Martihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11341915969684349287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-86761466401204000292010-11-06T23:17:53.957+02:002010-11-06T23:17:53.957+02:00Thanks, Gintaras. I missed that one. And of cour...Thanks, Gintaras. I missed that one. And of course publishers like to say the topic has never been covered before. Still, very good story so far. The trick from my perspective will be if she can move it from the specific stories (i.e., the oral histories) into the broader narrative. <br /><br />I hate to bring this up again but there's an interesting comparison to the book on Lacks, avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-26500843969662229132010-11-06T18:17:17.532+02:002010-11-06T18:17:17.532+02:00Nicholas Lemann wrote a great book on the black mi...Nicholas Lemann wrote a great book on the black migration a few years back entitled The Promised Land,<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Promised-Land-Migration-Changed-America/dp/0679733477/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289060167&sr=1-1James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-236943641064805452010-11-06T17:47:15.186+02:002010-11-06T17:47:15.186+02:00I'm very hopeful about this one. Speaking of ...I'm very hopeful about this one. Speaking of the Jim Crow South, she writes:<br /><br />"The actions of the people in this book were both universal and distinctly American. Their migration was a response to an economic and social structure not of their making. They did what humans have done for centuries when life became untenable -- what the pilgrims did under the tyranny of British avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-771071434931710642010-11-06T17:35:50.363+02:002010-11-06T17:35:50.363+02:00This looks like a very interesting book, av.This looks like a very interesting book, av.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-73450297516879946092010-11-06T15:39:22.924+02:002010-11-06T15:39:22.924+02:00I am just finishing Mark Wyman's Hoboes, Bindl...I am just finishing Mark Wyman's Hoboes, Bindlestiffs, etc. about the "harvesting of the west." <br /><br />Fascinating look at the rise of migrant labor tied to the railroads and the ability of the "new west" to suddenly produce fruit, wheat etc. for the rest of the nation. Very dense look (hundreds of examples from throughout the west) at the multi-ethnic origins of avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.com