Russ Rymer
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American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory
Russ Rymer
In American Beach, award-winning journalist Russ Rymer provides astonishing insights into the meaning of American race relations. Avoiding the easy clichs of victimhood and oppression, he searches for answers through three unexpected, overlapping, intensely personal stories. Ultimately he presents a vision of a nation where the futures of blacks and whites are as linked as their histories, and where black experience offers a key to the struggle of every modern American.
American Beach opens with the killing of an unarmed black motorist by white…
