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The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South
by Andrew W. Kahrl
Harvard University Press, 2012
Cloth: 978-0-674-05047-1 | eISBN: 978-0-674-06523-9
Library of Congress Classification E185.8.K215 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.308996073075

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A century ago a surprising amount of southern beachfront property was owned and populated by African Americans. In a path-breaking combination of social and environmental history, Kahrl shows how the rise and fall of Jim Crow and the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt have transformed both communities and ecosystems along the southern coastline.

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