Article
Book Review: Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis
Journal of Southern History
(2023)
Abstract
Jovan Scott Lewis's Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and its legacies. The thesis is evident in the introduction: "Violent Utopia explores the juxtaposition of violence and Black freedom and progress in a direct assessment of the paradoxical circumstances of Blackness in the United States" (p. 15).
Keywords
- Tulsa Race Riots,
- Racial Violence,
- Greenwood
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall August 1, 2023
DOI
10.1353/soh.2023.a903223
Citation Information
Jajuan Johnson. "Book Review: Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis" Journal of Southern History Vol. 89 Iss. 3 (2023) p. 586 - 587 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jajuan-johnson/6/