Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
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- ISBN: 9780593134054
- ISBN: 0593134052
- ISBN: 9780593134047
- ISBN: 0593134044
- ISBN: 9780593402429
- ISBN: 0593402421
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1 online resource (xvii, 504 pages) - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2021]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references 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 |
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Subject: | African Americans -- History United States -- Race relations -- History African Americans Race relations United States |
Genre: | History. Electronic books. Biographies. |
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor. He is the host of the new action podcast Be Antiracist. Dr. Kendi is the author of many highly acclaimed books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest-ever winner of that award. He has also produced five straight #1 New York Times bestsellers, including How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist Baby, and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored by Jason Reynolds. In 2020, Time magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.
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 Hamerâs Enduring Message to America.
Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author of many books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and three #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian, professor, and writer. She is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, the president of the African American Intellectual History Society, and an editor for The Washington Post's "Made by History" section. Her writing has appeared in popular outlets such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, Politico, and Time. She is the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle of Freedom and Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Vision of America.