Context:

Rue mentions this book when discussing how different people can have different associations with the same things, like parades. She uses it as an example of how someone from communist Czechoslovakia would view a parade differently than someone from America, relating this to how Black people might have different associations with outdoor spaces like pools due to historical exclusion.

Context:

Rue references reading this book when discussing the Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to northern cities. She describes how the book talks about Black people being refugees in America, jumping on trains to places like Chicago, New York, Oakland, and Los Angeles, and mentions details like 'hot bedding' where family members would work and sleep in shifts.