Review: Raisins in Milk, by David Covin

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Book Review| April 13 2020 Review: Raisins in Milk, by David Covin Raisins in Milk, by David Covin. Sacramento, CA: Blue Nile Press, 2018. 238 pages. $15.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780984435074. Mudiwa Pettus Mudiwa Pettus City University of New York, Medgar Evers College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar National Review of Black Politics (2020) 1 (2): 335–337. https://doi.org/10.1525/nrbp.2020.1.2.335 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mudiwa Pettus; Review: Raisins in Milk, by David Covin. National Review of Black Politics 13 April 2020; 1 (2): 335–337. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nrbp.2020.1.2.335 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNational Review of Black Politics Search With Raisins in Milk, political scientist and creative writer David Covin delivers an arresting tale of love, loss, and protracted struggle. Set in Florida at the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel excavates the social, political, and economic encumbrances Black communities faced after the end of Reconstruction. Tragic and triumphant, Covin’s fourth novel deftly elucidates the country’s deep-seated racist histories and honors African Americans’ astonishing capacity to imagine a brighter future for posterity even when immersed in the darkest of circumstances. Ruth-Ann Weathering is the anchor of the novel’s myriad characters and divergent plotlines. In the first chapter, she is introduced as an eighth grader who possesses exceptional intellectual and oratorical gifts. Her teacher proclaims that she is the “best of what the future can be” and lobbies for her enrollment in the “colored” or segregated high school located in Jacksonville. Indeed, Ruth-Ann leaves her family and provincial hometown... You do not currently have access to this content.