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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Rachelle D.Henry
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended
Black Utopia
Language: en
Pages: 151
Authors: Alex Zamalin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-20 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. D
Lost Buxton
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Rachelle Chase
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Buxton, Iowa, was an unincorporated coal mining town, established by Consolidation Coal Company in 1900. At a time when Jim Crow laws and segregation kept black
Exploring Buried Buxton
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: David M. Gradwohl
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-10 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of African American settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in
Bet the Farm
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Beth Hoffman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-05 - Publisher: Island Press

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“Eloquent and detailed...precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post. Beth Hoffman was living the goo