Travels in Lovecraft Country Gift Set, Negro Motorist’s Green Book, Lovecraft Country, Cthulhu Miskatonic University Keychain, Packard Keys

Travels in Lovecraft Country Gift Set, Negro Moyorists Green Book, Lovecraft Country, Cthulhu Miskatonic University Keychain, Packard Keys

One of our specially curated collections, for keeping you safe on your travels in Lovecraft Country. This edition includes:

1. Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country, first paperback edition
2. New facsimile edition to the 1940 edition of the Negro Motorist’s Green Book, both an outstanding piece of history, and something featuring heavily in the series, and hailed as a “beacon for black travelers,” by the New York Times.
3. New edition of the Post-Racial Green Book, a modern take on a book used to keep black travelers safe, in the US.
4. A new Miskatonic University Keychain, with a true vintage Packard key attached, as an homage to Woody.

And, as always, packaged into a nice gift box, designed especially for this set.

Lovecraft Country is a 2016 dark fantasy horror novel by Matt Ruff, exploring the conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow laws, as experienced by black science-fiction fan Atticus Turner and his family. It was published by HarperCollins.

You’ve heard the tales, you’ve watched the movie, but have you seen The Green Book? During the dangerous days of Jim Crow segregation, it was difficult to be an African-American traveler, as hotels that would take you or restaurants that would serve you were few and far between. This was addressed by The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual listing of lodging, diners, gas stations, and other businesses that could handle the needs of the Black customer. Created in 1936 by Harlem-based postman Victor H. Green, the Green Book served the public until after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s ended legal segregation. Original copies of the Green Book are now museum pieces, but in this book you can see all the articles, all the ads, and all the listings from four editions of the Green Book, one for each decade in which the series was published. Rreproduced at about 50% larger than the original size, for easier reading.

The Post-Racial Negro Green Book is a state-by-state archive of 21st century racial bias against African Americans in the United States—from well-known police brutality incidents to everyday harassment. It covers the years 2013 to 2016 and is intended to document and preserve contemporary history on the topic for the sake of review, consideration, discussion, and action.

Presented alongside this compilation of reported incidents is a comprehensive set of data that creates a fuller picture of each state, including racial breakdowns of population, poverty, unemployment, and imprisonment. The index memorializes those whose lives were lost in the incidents included in the book