A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940

2. Auflage, 2022
ISBN: 978-0-87071-221-0
Verlag: Oregon State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Published in cooperation with Oregon Black Pioneers

Elizabeth McLagan’s A Peculiar Paradise: a History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940 remains the most comprehensive chronology of Black life in Oregon more than forty years after its original publication. The book has long been a resource for those seeking information on the legal and social barriers faced by people of African descent in Oregon. McLagan’s work reveals how, in spite of those barriers, Black individuals and families made Oregon their home, and helped create the state’s modern Black communities. Long out of print, the book is available again through Oregon Black Pioneers, Oregon’s statewide African American historical society. This revised second edition includes additional details for students and scholars, an expanded reading list, updated artwork, and a new foreword.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLagan, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth McLagan is a freelance writer and retired instructor at Portland Community College. She graduated with a degree in history from Oregon State University, and earned an MFA in poetry from Eastern Washington University. She has written Notes Toward a Biography: The Papers of John Hiram Jackson (Portland Community College, 1998), and contributed an historical overview of women and minorities for the Oregon Regional Disparity Study (1996). Essays and reviews have also appeared in BLACKPAST.org, Oregon Historical Quarterly, and elsewhere. A founding editor of the literary magazine Calyx, she is the author of several books of poetry and is currently working on a hybrid memoir.Oregon Black Pioneers is Oregon’s only historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of African Americans statewide. Since 1993, our organization has illuminated the seldom-told history of people of African descent in Oregon through exhibitions, public programs, publications, and historical research. Additionally, we partner with local organizations to plan, interpret, and advocate for the preservation and commemoration of sites with African American historical significance statewide. We are inspired by the tenacity of Black Oregonians who have faced discrimination and hardship to make a life here over the past 400 years. We honor their sacrifices by remembering their stories.