num_pages: 76
description: Poetic reflections on race class violence segregation and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 the most intense of the riots that comprised the Red Summer of violence across the nations 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 eventwhich lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuriesthrough 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.
language: English
title: 1919
publisher: Haymarket Books