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Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 / edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.
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- ISBN: 9780593134047
- ISBN: 0593134044
- Physical Description: xvii, 504 pages ; 25 cm
- 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: | A community of souls : an introduction / by Ibram X. Kendi -- Part one. 1619-1624 : arrival / by Nikole Hannah-Jones ; 1624-1629 : Africa / by Molefi Kete Asante ; 1629-1634 : whipped for lying with a Black woman / by Ijeoma Oluo ; 1634-1639 : tobacco / by Damaris B. Hill ; 1639-1644 : Black women's labor / by Brenda E. Stevenson ; 1644-1649 : Anthony Johnson, colony of Virginia / by Maurice Carlos Ruffin ; 1649-1654 : the Black family / by Heather Andrea Williams ; 1654-1659 : unfree labor / by Nakia D. Parker ; Poem : "upon arrival" by Jericho Brown -- Part two. 1659-1664 : Elizabeth Keye / by Jennifer L. Morgan ; 1664-1669 : the Virginia law on baptism / by Jemar Tisby ; 1669-1674 : the royal African company / by David A. Love ; 1674-1679 : Bacon's rebellion / by Heather C. McGhee ; 1679-1684 : the Virginia law that forbade bearing arms; or the Virginia law that forbade armed self-defense / by Kellie Carter Jackson ; 1684-1689 : the code noir / by Laurence Ralph ; 1689-1694 : the Germantown petition against slavery / by Christopher J. Lebron ; 1694-1699 : the middle passage / by Mary E. Hicks ; Poem : "Mama, where you keep your gun?" / by Phillip B. Williams -- Part three. 1699-1704 : the selling of Joseph / by Brandon R. Byrd ; 1704-1709 : the Virginia slave codes / by Kay Wright ; 1709-1714 : the revolt in New York / by Herb Boyd ; 1714-1719 : the slave market / by Sasha Turner ; 1719-1724 : maroons and marronage / by Sylviane A. Diouf ; 1724-1729 : the spirituals / by Corey D. B. Walker ; 1729-1734 : African identities / by Walter C. Rucker ; 1734-1739 : from Fort Mose to soul city / by Brentin Mock ; Poem : "before revolution" / by Morgan Parker -- Part four. 1739-1744 : the Stono rebellion / by Wesley Lowery ; 1744-1749 : Lucy Terry Prince / by Nafissa Thompson-Spires ; 1749-1754 : race and the enlightenment / by Dorothy E. Roberts ; 1754-1759 : Blackness and indigeneity / by Kyle T. Mays ; 1759-1764 : one Black boy : the Great Lakes and the Midwest / by Tiya Miles ; 1764-1769 : Phillis Wheatley / by Alexis Pauline Gumbs ; 1769-1774 : David George / by William J. Barber II ; 1774-1779 : the American revolution / by Martha S. Jones ; Poem : "not without some instances of uncommon cruelty" / by Justin Phillip Reed -- Part five. 1779-1784 : Savannah Georgia / by Daina Ramey Berry ; 1784-1789 : the U.S. Constitution / by Donna Brazile ; 1789-1794 : Sally Hemings / by Annette Gordon-Reed ; 1794-1799 : the fugitive slave act / by Deirdre Copper Owens ; 1799-1804 : higher education / by Craig Steven Wilder ; 1804-1809 : cotton / by Kiese Laymon ; 1809-1814 : the Lousiana rebellion / by Clint Smith ; 1814-1819 : queer sexuality / by Raquel Willis ; Poem : "remembering the Albany 3" / by Ishmael Reed -- Part six. 1819-1824 : Denmark Vesey / by Robert Jones, Jr. ; 1824-1829 : Freedom's Journal / by Pamela Newkirk ; 1829-1834 : Maria Stewart / by Kathryn Sophia Belle ; 1834-1839 : the national Negro conventions / by Eugene Scott ; 1839-1844 : racial passing / by Allyson Hobbs ; 1844-1849 : James McCune Smith, M.D. / by Harriet A. Washington ; 1849-1854 : Oregon / by Mitchell S. Jackson ; 1854-1859 : Dred Scott / by John A. Powell ; Poem : "compromise" / by Donika Kelly -- Part seven. 1859-1864 : Frederick Douglass / by Adam Serwer ; 1864-1869 : the Civil War / by Jamelle Bouie ; 1869-1874 : reconstruction / by Michael Harriot ; 1874-1879 : Atlanta / by Tera W. Hunter ; 1879-1884 : John Wayne Niles / by William A. Darity, Jr. ; 1884-1889 : Philadelphia / by Kali Nicole Gross ; 1889-1894 : lynching / by Crystal N. Feimster ; 1894-1899 : Plessy v. Ferguson / by Blair L. M. Kelley ; Poem : "John Wayne Niles ... . -- . .- -.- ... / - --- Ermias Joseph Asghedom" by Mahogany L. Browne ; Part eight. 1899-1904 : Booker T. Washington / by Derrick Alridge ; 1904-1909 : Jack Johnson / by Howard Bryant ; 1909-1914 : the Black public intellectual / by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ; 1914-1919 : the great migration / by Isabel Wilkerson ; 1919-1924 : red summer / by Michelle Duster ; 1924-1929 : the Harlem Renaissance / by Farah Jasmine Griffin ; 1929-1934 : the Great Depression / by Robin D. G. Kelley ; 1934-1939 : Nora Neale Hurston / by Bernice L. McFadden ; Poem : "coiled and unleashed" by Patricia Smith -- Part nine. 1939-1944 : the Black soldier / by Chad Williams ; 1944-1949 : the Black left / by Russell Rickford ; 1949-1954 : the road to Brown v. Board of Education / by Sherrilyn Ifill ; 1954-1959 : Black arts / by Imani Perry ; 1959-1964 : the Civil Rights Movement / by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. ; 1964-1969 : Black power / by Peniel Joseph ; 1969-1974 : property / by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ; 1974-1979 : Combahee river collective / by Barbara Smith ; Poem : "and the record repeats" / by Chet'la Sebree -- 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 Joseph Bennett -- Conclusion : our ancestor's wildest dreams / by Keisha N. Blain. |
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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
#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 present--edited 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 * "A vital addition to [the] curriculum on race in America . . . a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain's impressive choir."-- The Washington Post "From journalist Hannah P. Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed's 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."-- O: The Oprah Magazine The story begins in 1619--a year before the Mayflower --when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" 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. 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 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 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.
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