In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas (repost)
In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas By Bill Minutaglio
Publisher: Univ..ers..ity of Te..xas Press 2010 | 183 Pages | ISBN: 0292722478 , 0292722893 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Univ..ers..ity of Te..xas Press 2010 | 183 Pages | ISBN: 0292722478 , 0292722893 | PDF | 1 MB
The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers in the 1970s, few large publications had more than a token number of African American journalists, and they barely acknowledged the things of lasting importance to the African American community. Though hardly the most likely reporter–as a white, Italian American transplant from New York City–for the black Texas beat, Minutaglio was drawn to the African American heritage, seeking its soul in churches, on front porches, at juke joints, and anywhere else that people would allow him into their lives. His nationally award-winning writing offered many Americans their first deeper understanding of Texas's singular, complicated African American history.