{"product_id":"haitians-of-springfield-joshua-lisec-9781510788848","title":"Haitians of Springfield: An Oral History","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen One Culture Eats Another\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat if dismissing a viral news story as a \"hoax\" was the real hoax all along?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Springfield, Ohio, became a national symbol in America's immigration debate, the media moved quickly to impose a clean, familiar narrative--claims were debunked, concerns were invented, and heritage citizens raising them were misled, manipulated, or worse. But for many Clark County residents, the official story rang false; it sounded more like a cover-up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRust-Belt Springfield had struggled for decades amid slowed job prospects, strained services, fragile neighborhoods, and a forsaken generation left to wonder if things could ever get better. Then thousands of Haitian migrants arrived in a community with little room to absorb the shock. Schools, hospitals, housing, streets, and workplaces felt the pressure immediately. Tragedies struck; residents spoke up. Then national politics seized on the story during the 2024 presidential election cycle, and rumor, denial, outrage, and opportunism collided. A tidy mainstream narrative subsequently devoured documented local history and dismissed all nuance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHaitians of Springfield\u003c\/i\u003e, the first-ever book covering this American migrant crisis, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and lifelong Ohio resident Joshua Lisec tells the full story of what happens when one culture's norms begin to supersede another's, when a local way of life is willed into submission without a vote, without consent, and without recourse. Drawing on local reporting, original interviews, public testimony, firsthand accounts, hard evidence, and the first-ever professional polls of the people of Springfield, Lisec tells all sides of a story mainstream media would not--what mass migration looks like on the ground, how real people (on both sides) pay the price, and why the truth is buried when it's politically inconvenient. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a representative case study, \u003ci\u003eHaitians of Springfield\u003c\/i\u003e traces the widening gap between lived experience of foreign influx into middle America and its approved narrative.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHerein is the literary portrait of a city forced to confront whether citizenship, assimilation, identity, and belonging still mean what they once did--and to decide who bears the cost when progressive policy priority gets imposed locally . . . and punitively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Lisec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1510788840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781510788848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Regnery Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs","brand":"Joshua Lisec","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997779505407,"sku":"9781510788848","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/haitians-of-springfield-joshua-lisec-9781510788848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}