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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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93/100Author:
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
Publisher:
One World
Date:
February 2, 2021
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. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines â historians and artists, journalists and novelists â 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.
What The Reviewers Say
... an inspiring book of historical observations, poetry, scholarship, and vignettes.
Whether you know only a little about Black history or a great deal, it’s a rich and rewarding book.
African American history is a communal quilt, crisscrossed with the stitches of elders, youth, LGBTQ folk, mothers, fathers, revolutionaries, and poets.
A compendium of essays and poems chronicling 400 years of Black American history.
