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96/100Author:
Tyler Stovall
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Date:
January 19, 2021
Traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white.
What The Reviewers Say
... sprawling yet focused.
Stovall could not have foreseen his book's release coming on the heels of such a terrifyingly and precisely relevant event.
Stovall is meticulous about parsing historical events, global ideologies, and the usurped symbols of freedom to show that the freedom of one group of people has long been seen as dependent on the oppression of other groups.
In his intellectual archaeology, the author neither excuses nor cancels historical racism.
