"Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America"




The World Beyond the Headlines from the University of Chicago show

Summary: <img src="http://booksense-stores.booksense.com/images/books/363/036/FC9780465036363.JPG" alt="Jaspin book cover" align="left"> Based on nearly a decade of painstaking research in archives and census records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elliot Jaspin's book Buried in the Bitter Waters provides irrefutable evidence that racial cleansing occurred again and again on American soil, and fundamentally reshaped the geography of race. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.