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Freeman, Douglas Gary.
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Civil rights -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
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Civil rights -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
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Exile blues /
Douglas
Gary
Joseph
Freeman
.
by
Freeman
,
Douglas
Gary
.
Baraka Books, 2019.
Call #:
FICTION FRE
Subjects
Civil rights -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781771862004 (trade pbk.)
Description:
332 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"When Preston Downs, Jr., alias Prez, slides down the emergency chute onto the frozen tarmac at the Montreal airport, little does he know that returning home to Washington D.C. or to his adopted city, Chicago, would now be impossible. Events had sped by after a dust-up with the Chicago police. With a new name and papers, he finds himself in a foreign city where people speak French and life is douce compared to the one he fled. Son of a World War II vet, Prez grows up in the 50s in D.C., a segregated Southern city, and learns early that black lives don't much matter. As a leader in the streets, his journey from boyhood to manhood means acquiring fighting skills to lead and unify long before losing his virginity. Smart and skeptical, but with a code of ethics, he, like every black kid, wants to be Malcolm, Martin or at least a soul brother, which inspires fear among the powers that be. Spotted while an A student at Howard University in 1964, Prez is invited to do an interdisciplinary course with field work on Civil Rights in Chicago, a city as divided as Gettysburg was a hundred years earlier. Faced with police-state conditions, dubious armed gangs, spies and provocateurs, Prez and the young women and men he works with are propelled into a head-on fight with police. James Baldwin wrote that the blues began "on the auction block," others say it started with their kidnapping from Africa. Prez was born in exile, with the blues. Only someone who has lived through that period can write an enthralling and passionate story like Exile Blues.
Gary
Freeman
has done so with insight and sensitivity."--From goodreads.com
Genre:
Autobiographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Black fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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