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The Pool Is Closed
Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim
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Erstverkaufstag: 16.10.2024
Artikel-Nr:
9780807181898
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.10.2024
Seiten:
296
Autor:
Hannah S Palmer
Format:
229x152x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Hannah S. Palmer is a writer and designer from the Southside of Atlanta. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Sewanee: The University of the South, and she is the author of Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport (2017). Through essays, memoir, and public art projects, she explores how hidden histories and wildness shape our lives in the urban landscape.
In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about how her young sons would learn to swim. Would they grow up accustomed to the stubbornly segregated pools of Atlanta? Was it safe for them to wade in creeks laced with urban runoff or dive into the ever-warming, man-made swimming holes of the South? Should they just join the Y?