Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019

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Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019

Kendi, Ibram X., (editor.). Blain, Keisha N., 1985- (editor.).

Summary: A chorus of extraordinary voices tells one of history's great epics: The four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619-- a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod, when the White Lion disgorged "some 20 and odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia-- 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. Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a brief 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: though 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 though the book, this collection of diverse pieces fundamentally deconstructs the idea that Africans in America are a monolith. Instead it unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness. 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--From dust jacket.

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ISBN: 0593134044
ISBN: 9780593134047
Physical Description: xvii, 504 pages ; 25 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : One World, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-442) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Part ten. 1979-1984 : the war on drugs / by James Forman, Jr. ; 1984-1989 : the hip-hop generation / by Bakari Kitwana ; 1989-1994 : Anita Hill / by Salamishah Tillet ; 1994-1999 : the crime bill / by Angela Y. Davis ; 1999-2004 : the Black immigrant / by Esther Armah ; 2004-2009 : Hurricane Katrina / by Deborah Douglas ; 2009-2014 : the Shelby ruling / by Karine Jean-Pierre ; 2014-2019 : Black Lives Matter / by Alicia Garza ; Poem : "American Abecedarian" / by Joshua Bennett ; Conclusion : Our ancestors' wildest dreams / by Keisha N. Blain.