{"product_id":"across-the-tracks-remembering-greenwood-black-wall-street-and-the-tulsa-race-massacre-9781419755170","title":"Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the graphic novel history \u003ci\u003eAcross the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, \u003c\/i\u003eauthor Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma--also known as Black Wall Street--a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious slaughter that took place there in 1921.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcross the Tracks \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and historical essay, \u003ci\u003eAcross the Tracks \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a thorough examination of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Wall Street. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAcross the Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e not only personalizes and therefore heightens the tragedy we know will come, but it also reframes that tragedy. Black perseverance and joy take center stage in a way it seldom does when discussing Greenwood.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Beat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlverne Ball \u003c\/b\u003ehas an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2014 and 2015 Glyph Rising Star Award for his writing on \u003ci\u003eOne Nation: Old Druids\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2009, he received the first-ever Luminarts graphic novel writing award. Ball lives in Joliet, Illinois. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStacey Robinson \u003c\/b\u003eis an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of the collaborative team Black Kirby with artist John Jennings, Robinson creates graphic novels, gallery exhibitions, lectures, and workshops that use strategies to imagine new worlds inspired by design, hip-hop, the arts and sciences, and diasporic African belief systems.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Abrams Comicarts - Megascope","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50628886823186,"sku":"9781419755170","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0748fdb0-8df6-4c1a-9096-805a4a071e0e.jpg?v=1732712116","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/across-the-tracks-remembering-greenwood-black-wall-street-and-the-tulsa-race-massacre-9781419755170","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}