If We Must Die: A Novel of Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood Riot (Chaparral Books)
by Pat Carr
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Author: Pat CarrEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-15
ISBN: 087565262X
Number of pages: 166
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
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Book Review: Expressively riveting
Summary: 5 Stars
I highly recommend "If We Must Die: a Novel of Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood Riot" by Pat Carr. As the book compares Berneen O'Brien's new work experiences to her past and present home experiences, it explores the diversity within the black community in which she, the heroine, has recently started working. The book is about this young woman's awakening to the immense beauty in diversity and, how being surrounded by a completely new culture profoundly affects her. When Berneen, who is "Black Irish", digs back into her youth and recalls being told to stay out of the sun to keep from becoming too dark, the author raises the subject of our lack of tolerance as individuals in general. She then accentuates the point by bringing up the brown paper bag method utilized to exclude darker blacks from joining a club of lighter blacks. Masterfully Carr touches on our universal need for acceptance by placing Berneen in a situation where she discovers that the reason she has been so completely embraced by this community is because she's been mistaken as a black person by them. After some delay young Berneen ponders on conflicting information from her Uncle and her black Principal, Nelson Flowers, to whom she is attracted. The story explores how she has to evaluate the integrity of both individuals in order to determine the truth. Because she worked and lived in both cultures, Berneen is able to fully weigh the character of each group to help us, the readers, draw our own conclusions. Every thing comes alive as historical facts from the actual race riot are illustrated in critical events that forever change the lives of the vibrant characters that we come to know and love. This story is enormously moving; and, I'd love to see it translated on to the big screen with Mila Kunis and Will Smith in the leading rolls.
Summary of If We Must Die: A Novel of Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood Riot (Chaparral Books)
When seventeen-year-old, white Berneen O'Brien moves to Tulsa and takes a job at a segregated elementary school, she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of her black colleagues and shares their experiences during the deadly race riot that destroys Greenwood in 1921.Historical Books
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