Chocolate City

Ever since Constance McLaughlin Green published the monumental Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital (1967), scholars have expanded the analysis she advanced. In subsequent years, Letitia Brown, James Borchert, Stanley Harrold, Eric Yellin, and Howard Gillette, among others, contributed important monographs on race in Washington, D.C. Two new studies, Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove's Chocolate City and Cameron Logan's Historic Capital further enrich our understanding of race relations in the nation's capital. These new efforts explore race in very different ways. They utilize contrasting settings and themes to present their respective interpretations of the first major urban area in the United States to emerge with a majority African American population. Whether examining this development over significant periods of time, as Asch and Musgrove do, or clarifying the role race played in a specific development in the twentieth century, as Logan does, they take readers into new terrain. In doing so, each book offers varying assessments of the impact of race in the history of the District of Columbia

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