Description: Arising from the iconic city of the African American experience comes this exploration of Black joy in the urban outdoors.
Review Quotes:
Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors is part of the Wayne State University Press 'Made in Michigan Writer Series' and showcases remembered and eloquently told anecdotes of what it was like to be Black and experiencing summer in an urban environment. An inherently fascinating and informative read throughout, This paperback edition of Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors from Wayne State University Press is unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as community and college/university library African-American Biography/History collections
--James A. Cox "MBR Review"