{"id":13823,"date":"2021-12-09T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2021\/12\/09\/faculty-books-being-somebody-and-black-besides\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:51:52","slug":"faculty-books-being-somebody-and-black-besides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2021\/12\/09\/faculty-books-being-somebody-and-black-besides\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Books: Being Somebody and Black Besides"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cI promised him that I would somehow get his \u2018SOMEBODY,\u2019 published.\u201d So stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/our-faculty\/prexy-nesbitt\">Wilkinson College Presidential Fellow in Peace Studies Prexy Nesbitt<\/a>, who turned co-editing his uncle\u2019s memoir into a labor of love.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/B\/bo115838221.html\">Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life<\/a>,\u201d by Chicagoan George B. Nesbitt, and co-edited by P. Nesbitt and Zeb Larson, is the story of a Midwestern Black family living through the tumultuous twentieth century, starting in 1906 with the Great Migration and ending with the Freedom Struggle in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2021\/12\/nesbitt-bookjacket.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13824 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2021\/12\/nesbitt-bookjacket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2021\/12\/nesbitt-bookjacket.jpg 860w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2021\/12\/nesbitt-bookjacket-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2021\/12\/nesbitt-bookjacket-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2021\/12\/nesbitt-bookjacket-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a>Nesbitt, who died in 2002, was an \u201cordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the book, he drafted in the 1970s,\u201d said P. Nesbitt. \u201cMy uncle tried to get it published through the 1980s and 1990s, along with his many other writings. My uncle asked me specifically before his death to see if I could find a way to get his manuscript taken up by a publisher, as he was so determined to leave his words to all his nieces and nephews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book describes his own personal struggles with racism in the military during World War II and his educational and professional accomplishments he worked so hard for, while focusing on the unwavering commitment by three generations of Black Americans to fight for a better world.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what part of his uncle\u2019s memoir really stands out to him, P. Nesbitt responded, \u201cThroughout his fifty-year legal career, he battled for the civil rights of poor and working people, black and white. This includes his taking the cases of US soldiers victimized by racial violence in Texas and elsewhere until the US Army in retaliation stationed him in Australia for two years in a tent by himself,\u201d he said. \u201cSo many of my generation (self-included) had horrible struggles with the US military during the period of the US&#8217;s aggression against Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of his life offers a powerful glimpse into the issues of race, politics, and public policy over the course of the twentieth century. A compelling and thought-provoking life story and a wonderful addition to the growing genre of Black biography,\u201d said Barbara Ransby, author and special guest speaker at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/_files\/ETW%20FALL%20FILM%20FLYERS\/etw-lecture-barbara-ransby.pdf\"> Wilkinson\u2019s Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race<\/a> Series last spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope readers gain an enhanced understanding of how long and how hard people have struggled to make the USA and other places (like Africa) better situations in which to live,\u201d said P. Nesbitt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/B\/bo115838221.html\">Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life\u201d is published by University of Chicago Press.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI promised him that I would somehow get his \u2018SOMEBODY,\u2019 published.\u201d So stated Wilkinson College Presidential Fellow in Peace Studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":13825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5,2549,2631],"tags":[3185,3186,3187,3188,3189,2924],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-2","category-news","category-peace","category-wilkinson-college","tag-faculty-editor","tag-facutly-books","tag-freedom-struggle","tag-great-migration","tag-peace-studies-presidential-fellow","tag-prexy-nesbitt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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