Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in TulsaIn Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in Tulsas Greenwood neighborhoodcolloquially known as Black Wall Streetcurtailed the freedom built there. Rather than framing the massacre as a one off event, Lewis places it in a

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a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than cliched phrases for the sake of mass appeal ("9: Be kind to our language")

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and work by a new generation of historians

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also known as the “Black Death