The Fog Machine
I have read quite a few books having to do with race relations but I don't think I have...
This exploration of prejudice and what enables and disables change is set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1964 and told from three very different perspectives. To Joan Barnes, 12 years old in the summer of 1964, freedom is her birthright. As for Mississippi's Negroes, freedom was settled by the Civil War, wasn't it? Negroes are no longer slaves. As the child of upper middle-class Yankee Catholics living in predominantly Baptist Mississippi, where family roots are as deep as those of the towering loblolly pines, Joan simply wants to belong. This need repeatedly puts her at odds with what she knows to be right. And it will take her years to understand that freedom means making choices. To C. J. Evans, born to a life of cleaning white folks’ houses, freedom is the size of a human heart, never bigger or smaller. It comes from within and can’t be given or taken away. And, as her waiting-on-heaven Baptist preacher and white-controlled schools have taught her, freedom takes a back...
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- Pages: 406 pages
- ISBN: 9781941038505 / 0
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I have read quite a few books having to do with race relations but I don't think I have picked one up having to do with "freedom summer" before. This story was mainly told from the POV of C.J. who works as a maid in a town outside of Meridian, Mississippi. Troubles with employers escalate to the point where she takes a job in Chicago... This is another book about such atrocious events that I hate to say I loved it. I'm not well versed in the civil rings of this issue, at least not much further than high school textbooks and the occasional tv documentary. This presented it in a way that drew me in, completely, and made me want to fight, even today. I drew so many parallels... I read this book last year - it must not have been here on GR at the time - because I read it and really enjoyed it!
