March 26th 2023.
Dr. James Wright is a full-time assistant professor in San Diego at SDSU, teaching courses related to inequities in educational policy and leadership. He also released his memoir, “Heirs of the Great Migration: How the Past Became the Future,” last December, and it became the #1 Bestseller on Amazon. It is available in eBook and paperback. His success wasn’t effortless, having surmounted crime-ridden, destitute communities and imprisonment. Wright states, “My book documents aspects of my family’s relocation from Jim Crow Era socio-politics with the intent of a better future for future generations. As part of their future generations, I talk about the realities we obtained in our ancestor’s hopeful new land.”
“Heirs of the Great Migration” is a narrative biography built on Wright’s family’s migration from Jim Crow-era sharecropping in North Carolina to manufacturing jobs in the industrial Northeast and recounted from the reference point and coming of age at the intersection of deindustrialization and the crack-cocaine epidemic.Caught in the dragnet of the Crime Bill at a young age and confined, I am now a professor with an MBA and Ph.D., reflecting on conquering historically rooted sociopolitical and socioeconomic structures, educational difficulties, and legal difficulties that reflect my ancestor’s pathways.
Wright is hopeful about the legacy he is leaving his three boys. An underrated yet essential part of modern US history, the book assists in magnifying the Great Migration of Blacks from the US South, closely linking with large populations of US Blacks across the US. Wright states, “Having triumphed over failed urban schools, divested communities, and prison to become a devoted father of three young boys and able to speak with integrity to the various educational and societal inequities I faced as a professor of education is
hopefully a new standard.”
Dr. James Wright is a full-time assistant professor at San Diego State University (SDSU), teaching courses focused on educational policy and leadership inequities. Last December, he released his memoir, “Heirs of the Great Migration: How the Past Became the Future”, which quickly became the #1 Bestseller on Amazon. It can be found in both eBook and paperback form. His success came not easily, having triumphed over crime-ridden, impoverished environments and
incarceration. Wright explains, “My book details elements of my family's migration from the Jim Crow Era socio-politics in pursuit of a better future for generations to come. As a part of these future generations, I speak of the realities we inherited in the land of our ancestors' dreams.”
“Heirs of the Great Migration” is a narrative biography grounded in Wright’s family’s
journey from Jim Crow-era sharecropping in North Carolina to manufacturing jobs in the industrial Northeast, and it is told from the point of view of one coming of age at the crossroads of deindustrialization and the crack-cocaine epidemic. After being ensnared in the Crime Bill at a young age and imprisoned, Wright is now a professor with an MBA and Ph.D., reflecting on how he overcame historically-rooted sociopolitical and socioeconomic structures, educational barriers, and legal obstacles which echo his ancestors' pathways.
Wright is hopeful about the legacy he is leaving his three sons. “Heirs of the Great Migration” is an important part of modern US history and it helps to amplify the Great Migration of Blacks from the US South, which is
closely linked to large African American populations across the US. Wright states, “Having managed to overcome underfunded urban schools, neglected communities, and incarceration to become a devoted father of three young boys, and being able to speak with credibility about the various educational and societal inequities I faced as a professor of education, I hope to set a new standard.”
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