{"id":752,"date":"2020-07-29T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=752"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T16:49:56","slug":"a-book-for-these-turbulent-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"A Book for These Turbulent Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpressua.uark.edu\/uapress\/files\/2014\/07\/harper.png\" alt=\"\" \/>It&#8217;s been awhile, but it seems only natural to recommend a good book to help us understand these turbulent times. If you have not read it,&#8221;<span id=\"m_2139779295673466491gmail-productTitle\"><span class=\"il\">White<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Man<\/span>&#8216;s <span class=\"il\">Heaven<\/span>: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909&#8243; by Kimberly Harper explores the complex racial dynamics of the early twentieth century Ozarks. If you are like us, you might have grown up in Southwest Missouri during a time when there were few, if any, people of color in your community and wondered why. Well, this is why. One reader called it the Ozarks version of &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can order a copy at Amazon: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-Mans-Heaven-Expulsion-1894-1909\/dp\/1557289840<\/p>\n<p>Or visit the University of Arkansas Press&#8217; site: https:\/\/www.uapress.com\/product\/white-mans-heaven\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile, but it seems only natural to recommend a good book to help us understand these turbulent times. If you have not read it,&#8221;White\u00a0Man&#8216;s Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909&#8243; by Kimberly Harper explores the complex racial dynamics of the early twentieth century Ozarks. If you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[552,1562],"tags":[2904,2619,31,2903,2902,48,1375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}