Four hundred souls a community history of African America, 1619-2019
"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...
| Other Authors: | Kendi, Ibram X. (Editor), Blain, Keisha N., 1985- (Editor) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
One World,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 504 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references ([397]-442) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780593134047 0593134044 |
| Author Notes: |
Keisha N. Blain , a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, is an award-winning historian, professor, and writer. She is the author of the multi-prize-winning book Set the World on Fire and co-editor, with Ibram X. Kendi, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Four Hundred Souls . She is a professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University and a columnist for MSNBC. Her most recent book is Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America. |