Race Riots and Resistance

The Author: Jan Voogd has been Head of Collection Management for the Social Sciences Program at the Harvard College Library for ten years. She was awarded a Bryant Fellowship in 2004. Her other books include Maynard, Massachusetts: A House in the Village (2007), and she has contributed articles to several encyclopedias.

«Jan Voogd’s ‘Race Riots and Resistance’ is the first book in four decades to study the enormity of the race riots of 1919 known as the ‘Red Summer’. Meticulously researched in a multitude of sources, this book is the comprehensive history that scholars of American race relations, as well as the lay public, have awaited for years.» (William Tuttle, The University of Kansas, Author of ‘«Daddy’s Gone to War»: The Second World War in the Lives of America’s Children’ (1993) and ‘Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919’ (2nd edition, 1996))«In a compelling, engaging, and persuasive study, Jan Voogd breaks through the local and national walls of silence surrounding the white racist violence which erupted in communities across the nation in 1919. A model of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis, ‘Race Riots and Resistance’ is a powerful and important examination of culturally permissible violence.» (Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies at Yale University)