![]() “The Accommodation is one of the first major works about the history of race and racism in Dallas, and its importance to the counter narrative of ‘Dallas as a great city for all’ can’t be understated… The telling of a Black story by a white author deserves continued critique and interrogation, however with The Accommodation, Jim Schutze delivered a must-read treatise about racism in Dallas that was both eye-opening and prophetic.” – Jerry Hawkins, Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation ![]() “An essential gift delivered almost four decades before Dallas was ready to receive it.” –John Wiley Price, Dallas County Commissioner A long-suppressed book about politics and race in Dallas is growing in popularity… The resurgence of The Accommodation is so important to so many.” -CBS This Morning Saturday “One chapter of Texas’ civil rights legacy is opening back up. “he real, uncensored story of how Dallas managed to avoid the far-reaching changes wrought on other major cities by the civil rights movement…In its pages lies the story of how the city, led by its secretive Dallas Citizens Council, kept the civil rights movement largely at bay, mostly by currying favor with an elite group of Black ministers and establishing housing enclaves for the Black middle class, while leaving the poor behind.” -Chris Vognar, Texas Monthly “ The Accommodation makes for a crackling but unusual read, merging a lifelong beat reporter’s gimlet eye for backroom corruption with a self-taught historian’s propensity for narrative sweep, animated throughout by a sincere and galvanizing rage at Dallas’s white leadership.” -Rob Madole, Los Angeles Review of Books Most recently, it has been called “The Most Dangerous Book in Dallas” by Peter Simek of D Magazine and “essential reading to understand Dallas” (Tim Diovanni, Dallas Morning News) and has been distributed digitally and in samizdat printouts among Dallasites interested in learning more about what makes Dallas the city it is, and how to address that history to build a better, more inclusive city together. While long out of print, this title has seen repeated waves of interest among Dallas residents since its original publication. It was then published by Citadel Press of New Jersey in 1987 before rights were purchased by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. The Accommodation was originally set to be published by Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas in 1986 before being dropped from publication. ![]() “The telling of a Black story by a white author deserves continued critique and interrogation, however with The Accommodation, Jim Schutze delivered a must-read treatise about racism in Dallas that was both eye-opening and prophetic.” ![]() “ The Accommodation is one of the first major works about the history of race and racism in Dallas, and its importance to the counter narrative of ‘Dallas as a great city for all’ can’t be understated,” shares Jerry Hawkins, Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, who also serves on the Deep Vellum board of directors. 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. 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: The Politics of Race in an American City details the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in Dallas from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s. The powerful classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city, from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s. ![]()
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