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REVIEWS
Buried in the Bitter Waters
The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
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By Elliot Jaspin
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(New York: Basic Books, 2007. Pp. ix, 341. Maps, illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $26.95.
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| Elliot Jaspin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for Cox Newspapers, spent a number of years investigating the strange anomaly he discovered in census records: the precipitous drop in the number of African Americans in certain U.S. counties. His research was originally published in the Austin American Statesman and other Cox newspapers, displayed on a website—"Leave or Die" [www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/news/interactives/lod/index.html] and developed by Marco Williams into a 2006 documentary called Banished. |
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