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Common ground

by J. Anthony Lukas · first published 1985

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Describes events in the lives of three families during the 1968 Boston school integration crisis.

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  • moldbug · May 17, 2012 · Recommends

    …E. Michael Jones's Slaughter of Cities (http://www.amazon.com/The-Slaughter-Cities-Renewal-Cleansing...) is a good overview from a j'accuse perspective. For a mainstream author, read J. Anthony Lukas' Common Ground. Better yet, read them both. Of course we've digressed into the question of harmful effects (of the civil-rights movement) on white people. My original post was mainly concerned with the effect on…

    on “50 Years Ago: The World in 1962 ” ↗
  • stonogo · Aug 23, 2022 · Recommends

    …changes in the neighborhood. It's difficult to separate his obvious biases from his work, leaving a slanted product unfit as an accurate record. Lukas is a much more reliable narrator, however, and Common Ground is an excellent work. Your statistics are uninteresting; the largest demographic is indeed the primary recipient of inter-demographic action from the second-largest demographic. This is to be expected…

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