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Strange Fruit : Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake-1850 to the Present - John Wennersten

Strange Fruit

Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake-1850 to the Present

By: John Wennersten

Paperback | 21 September 2021

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This book about Somerset County and the surrounding region traces the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present. Tidewater Somerset provides us with a palette for understanding racism and the evolution of racial ideas often overlooked by scholars. The book examines specific influences and trends, as well as political and cultural developments, which have played out at the micro-level in Maryland over time, and which might test or call into question assumptions about the nature of race relations on the national level.

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"Eastern Shore white traditionalists have long resisted telling the true and complete story of their history, which mirrors similar trajectories of other counties and communities south of the Mason-Dixon Line. The country, I believe, desperately needs to to know, acknowledge and own it-all of it."

Eugene L. Meyer, columnist for The New York Times and independent author.


"This book shows the historical significance and relevance of the subject, particularly now that race has become such an integral part of the American narrative. It also demonstrates the richness of the documentary resources Wennersten tapped to tell the story."

-Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate Historian Emeritus


"Although amateur historians try to write local histories, they usually fail.  Strange Fruit is high quality. For that reason, it can be more than the history of one community; it can be a model for how to write such histories and how to do it well."

-James H. Johnston, author of From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamut  

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