Review of 'Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Why did I read this book? Harrowing, and physically painful to get through in places, it reads as both a historical tale of some remarkable Georgia hill-country ethnic cleansing 100 years ago, and a chilling blueprint for how such racism can be emboldened and institutionalized by official collusion, even today. The "whites only" rural county may now be a modestly mixed upscale suburb of Atlanta, but Trump just won over 70% of the vote (I looked it up), so it hasn't come up that far, and we've all dropped an unknown distance further back to them.