Monumental in scope and clearly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our country’s capital. Emblematic of the continuous stress between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battlefield for contentious problems, consisting of slavery, partition, civil liberties, the drug war, and gentrification. D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove likewise highlight the city’s abundant history of local advocacy as Washingtonians of all races have actually struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where homeowners do not have full political rights. Tracing D.C.’s enormous transformations– from a sparsely populated plantation society into a varied metropolitan area, from a center of the servant trade to the country’s first black-majority city, from “Chocolate City” to “Latte City– Asch and Musgrove provide an interesting narrative peppered with memorable characters, a history of deep racial department however likewise among hope, strength, and interracial cooperation.
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