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The Indianapolis Anthology
9781948742917
Regular price $20.00 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%An anthology of essays & poetry offering a reconsideration of one of America’s most misunderstood cities.
Is Indianapolis just another midwestern city to fly over on the way to bigger and better destinations? Or is it, as locals know, a place where different peoples and ideals converge to create a rich cultural center? The Indianapolis Anthology showcases Naptown’s vibrancy and diversity with pieces from journalists, poets, historians, established community voices, and first-time writers. The Circle City is more than the home of the Indianapolis 500, John Dillinger, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Kurt Vonnegut, Prozac, and Wonder Bread. In these pages, you’ll find:
· lawn chairs in the beds of pick-ups
· Punk rock in Naptown
· suffragists and entrepreneurs
· cement pietàs
· dog bakeries and yoga studios
· red brick bungalows and war memorials
· steakburgers and Mexican seafood; pho and sauerbraten
· and more
In other words, you'll find images from a city that is truly a cross section of today’s America. Edited by Norman “Buzz” Minnick and with contributions from Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes, Michael Martone, and Karen Kovacik.
An insiders’ look that will make you see a great midwestern city in a brand-new light.
Better Homes of South Bend
9781467118651
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%
In 1950, a group of African American workers at the Studebaker factory in South Bend met in secret. Their mission was to build homes away from the factories and slums where they were forced to live. They came from the South to make a better life for themselves and their children, but they found Jim Crow in the North as well. The meeting gave birth to Better Homes of South Bend, and a triumph against the entrenched racism of the times took all their courage, intelligence and perseverance. Author Gabrielle Robinson tells the story of their struggle and provides an intimate glimpse into a part of history that all too often is forgotten.
An Oral History of African Americans in Grant County
9780738500478
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The honesty of the voices within this illuminating oral history will draw you into the Grant County of yesteryear, and leave you feeling as if you were really there.
There's a story that goes like this . . . So begins Delores Betts, one of the dozens of people whose memories and recollections of African-American life in Grant County over the past century and a half are preserved within what may well be the most intriguing and inspiring history you will ever read. We invite you to join Barbara Stevenson and the dozens of others in this delightful journey back in time. It is an experience that we promise you will never forget.
