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Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 / edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593134047 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvii, 504 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | African Americans > History. United States > Race relations > History. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Lakeshore Branch | 973.0496073 Fou | 31681010223956 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"-- - Baker & Taylor
Co-edited by the National Book Award-winning author of How to Be an Antiracist, a 400-year chronicle of African-American history is written in five-year segments as documented by 80 multidisciplinary historians, artists and writers. Illustrations. - Random House, Inc.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the presentâedited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL ⢠NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, Ms. magazine, BookPage, She Reads, BookRiot, Booklist â¢Â âA vital addition to [the] curriculum on race in America . . . a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blainâs impressive choir.ââThe Washington Post
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âFrom journalist Hannah P. Jones on Jamestownâs first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reedâs portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.ââO: The Oprah Magazine
The story begins in 1619âa year before the Mayflowerâwhen the White Lion disgorges âsome 20-and-odd Negroesâ onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.Â
Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume âcommunityâ history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. They approach history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people; through places, laws, and objects. While themes of resistance and struggle, of hope and reinvention, course through the book, this collection of diverse pieces from ninety different minds, reflecting ninety different perspectives, fundamentally deconstructs the idea that Africans in America are a monolithâinstead it unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness.Â
This is a history that illuminates our past and gives us new ways of thinking about our future, written by the most vital and essential voices of our present.
