Directory
References
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
work by Wilkerson
Learn about this topic in these articles:
African American literature of the early 21st century
- In African American literature: Nonfiction and journalism
>The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010) used interviews and oral histories to shed light on the widespread migration of African Americans in the 20th century from the South to cities in the North and the West. In 2020…
Read More
discussed in biography
- In Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste
…research for her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010). Taking its title from a poem by Richard Wright, an African American writer who had fled the Jim Crow South for Chicago in the early 20th century, the book follows the individual…
Read More