Indiana University, September 1963. Meri Henriques, a naïve freshman from New York, arrives on campus thinking she’s about to enroll at an idyllic Midwestern college. Instead, she discovers a storm is brewing.
An intriguing cast of characters inhabits Meri’s new and often troubled world: Katherine “Pixie” Gates, Meri’s charming and quirky roommate; Rachel, brilliant and sarcastic fellow New Yorker; Daniel, a tough radical with a tender heart; folk singer Derek Stone, Meri’s crush; and Shennandoah Waters, a white coed who only dates black men or exotic foreigners, much to her ultra-conservative parents’ horror.
Over the course of Meri’s first year at college, tragedy strikes twice: John Kennedy is assassinated, and a young, black IU basketball player is castrated and thrown into a ditch—murdered for dating a white coed. And finally, that year’s commencement ceremonies bring an infamous symbol of white supremacy to campus, endangering anyone who dared to protest—thrusting Meri into the middle of violent and escalating racial tensions. Vivid and compelling, Hoosier Hysteria is a timely story of prejudice and political unrest that, today more than ever before, must be told.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- prologue
- chapter 1: arrival
- chapter 2: pixie
- chapter 3: rachel
- chapter 4: decisions
- chapter 5: daniel
- chapter 6: cards
- chapter 7: fall semester
- chapter 8: just friends
- chapter 9: the poster committee
- chapter 10: troubles
- chapter 11: visitors
- chapter 12: gathering storm
- chapter 13: dies irae
- chapter 14: winter
- chapter 15: semester break
- chapter 16: second semester
- chapter 17: easter
- chapter 18: spring fever
- chapter 19: pizzlum sieve
- chapter 20: a party
- chapter 21: shennandoah
- chapter 22: derek
- chapter 23: mothers’ weekend
- chapter 24: good-byes
- chapter 25: hoosier hysteria
- epilogue
- acknowledgments
- about the author
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