The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City

By Jim Schutze

Book Overview

The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer, and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city's desegregation efforts in the 1950s and '60s.

Known for being an uninhibited and honest account of the city's institutional and structural racism, Schutze's book argues that Dallas' desegregation period came at a great cost to Black leaders in the city. Now, after decades out of print and hand-circulated underground, Schutze's book serves as a reminder of what an American city will do to protect the white status quo.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646050967
• ISBN13: 9781646050963
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: La Reunion Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Amazing, Frightening, and Promising Book, but .........

I bought and read this book many years ago when the local bookstore, Black Images, still had copies available. I had only lived in Dallas 10 years or so at that time but as a social worker in the city had come to know it well over the years. This book was amazing! By everything I knew it was very accurate and true and frightening that this could happen. I was thankful that such truths could be documented and put into print in our wonderful nation. Then I loaned my copy of the book to a friend, forgot who it was over the years, and could not find a copy when I searched for it years later. I finally found a copy of it online complete with Jim's signature and message giving it to a leading editorial writer of a major newspaper in Dallas. It is a powerful book but sadly I think many in Dallas want what it says to be hidden. As I recall I could not even find it in the Dallas Library, but that appears to have been due to my faulty searching, or else people have given enough copies of it to the Library that there are now many copies of it available throughout the Dallas Library System.

Dallas Racial Politics

Mr. Schutze is a very talented columnist for the Dallas Observer. He writes this insightful look at the beguiling nature of Dallas Racial politics, adn how a group of oligarchs made a deal for desegregation, but left years of seething rage in place.