Los Angeles During WWII
Summary of If He Hollers Let Him Go
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Reviews:
This site
includes a short biography of Chester Himes’ life and summary of the Novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, by the magazine Crime Time
On this site you will find 3 different book reviews,
in which the critic Hodges Graham utters, “Should be required reading…” "A
powerful tale,” and "Indignities
and rage of a black shipyard worker during WWII."
This site offers a variety of critics by various people in
which the novel is rated on a scale from 1-5. This novel earns an average
of four stars by amazon.com.
Brothersjudd.com along with Robert Jones gave the novel a B+ grade. In addition is site includes other general sites that are related to the book. http://www.brothersjudd.com
In this site Spike magazine in
the Article, “Dark End of
The Street: Chris Wiegand savors the atmosphere of Kenji Jasper’s
Dark” mentions the novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go, on the
seventh paragraph.
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0402dark.htm
Many good book reviews by different sources like The Tribune, Herald, and
The Observer on books that were written about Himes'.
This
web site contains an article of the, Monthly Journal of the Socialist
Party, which talks about Himes’ racist experiences which led him to
write many great books.
This web site talks about the style in which Chester Himes writes in.
This link talks about Himes' book at The End of the Primative. http://www.wwnorton.com/osb/endau.htm
This website talks about the biographies written on Chester Himes by
different people. It also has
parts about his life.
This Link talks about Himes childhood, teenage years, and older
years. It names books that he
has written and prizes that he has won for his literature.
This website gives information on Chester Himes and the books that he has
written.
http://www.topmystery.com/authors/ChesterHimes.htm
This talks
about where Himes was born, what he wrote when he was in prison and what
he wrote after he got out of prison.
This link gives us brief information on how Himes paid for school and why
he went to jail.
http://translate.google.com
This Link talks about Himes and his life; when he was in
jail, where he went to school and it names the books that he has written
and prizes that he won.
Miscellaneous:
This website gives us information on where he began writing. It has names
of the fiction books written by Himes and links to information on them.
This site contains very short summaries on different books as well as
If
He Hollers Let Him Go.
This site has information on the migration of black people, the
consequences of the cotton picker, the migration of black people from the
south to the north, and of their housing.
This site has information on racism against blacks and latinos by
Disneyland.
This site talks about the impact that Himes books have had on writing that
other authors do.
This is an article about an interview conducted with Lesley Himes.
This is a
list of the books that Chester Himes has written and they provides links
to summaries of the books.
An Article in Encyclopedia Britannica on Chester
Himes that talk about his life and different books written by
Himes.
http://search.eb.com
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This Link contains a picture and a short biography of Chester Himes.
L.A ports:
This
link contains history on the Ports of Los Angeles; how they’ve improved and
how they used to be throughout the years.
Pictures Provided by: http://www.kappabetasigma.org/Literature/KBS_Literature_1.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhimes.htm