Isabel Wilkerson has added another important book to the long tradition of serious writings on the interplay between American society’s white-supremacist practices and the migration of black American citizens out of the viciously racist South to the North and West. Wilkerson subtitles her book, The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House, 2010), “The Epic Story…

Intertwining Social Substance and Personal Migration Tales Author Isabel Wilkerson’s sectional presentation of the three personal migration tales in The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration results in a somewhat back-and-forth storytelling trajectory for her history of black Americans’ Great Migration saga. But Wilkerson’s intellectually shrewd and technically astute capabilities…