Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left, by Erin Royston Battat

Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these Depression-era migrations as interconnected responses to the capitalist collapse and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Battat shows, writers and artists of both races created migration stories specifically to bolster the black-white Left alliance. Visit the book page: Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left