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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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Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
Title
Four hundred souls
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a community history of African America, 1619-2019
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edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
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  • 400 souls
  • Community history of African America, 1619-2019
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A chorus of extraordinary voices tells one of history's great epics: The four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619-- a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod, when the White Lion disgorged "some 20 and odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia-- 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 brief 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: though 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 though the book, this collection of diverse pieces 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--From dust jacket
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1985-
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  • Kendi, Ibram X.
  • Blain, Keisha N.
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  • African Americans
  • United States
  • African Americans
  • Race Relations
  • United States
  • Noirs américains
  • États-Unis
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • HISTORY
  • African Americans
  • Race relations
  • United States
  • African Americans
  • United States
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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-442) and index
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Contents
  • 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
  • A community of souls : an introduction
  • by Nakia D. Parker
  • Poem : "Upon arrival"
  • by Jericho Brown. --
  • 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 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?"
  • Part two.
  • by Phillip B. Williams. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part three.
  • by Morgan Parker. --
  • 1699-1704 : the selling of Joseph
  • by Brandon R. Byrd
  • 1704-1709 : the Virginia slave codes
  • by Kai Wright
  • 1709-1714 : the revolt in New York
  • by Herb Boyd
  • 1714-1719 : the slave market
  • 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"
  • Part four.
  • by Justin Phillip Reed. --
  • 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 Deirdre Cooper Owens
  • 1799-1804 : higher education
  • by Craig Steven Wilder
  • 1804-1809 : cotton
  • by Kiese Laymon
  • 1809-1814 : the Louisiana rebellion
  • by Clint Smith
  • 1814-1819 : queer sexuality
  • by Raquel Willis
  • Poem : "Remembering the Albany 3"
  • Part five.
  • by Ishmael Reed. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part six.
  • by Donika Kelly. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part seven.
  • by Mahogany L. Browne. --
  • 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 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 : Zora Neale Hurston
  • by Bernice L. McFadden
  • Poem : "Coiled and unleashed"
  • Part eight.
  • by Patricia Smith. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part nine.
  • by Chet'la Sebree. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part ten.
  • by Joshua Bennett
  • Conclusion : Our ancestors' wildest dreams
  • by Keisha N. Blain
  • 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
Control code
1184240347
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xvii, 504 pages
Isbn
9780593134047
Lccn
2020043755
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651, 655
Other control number
40030319433
System control number
(OCoLC)1184240347
Label
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-442) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 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
  • A community of souls : an introduction
  • by Nakia D. Parker
  • Poem : "Upon arrival"
  • by Jericho Brown. --
  • 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 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?"
  • Part two.
  • by Phillip B. Williams. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part three.
  • by Morgan Parker. --
  • 1699-1704 : the selling of Joseph
  • by Brandon R. Byrd
  • 1704-1709 : the Virginia slave codes
  • by Kai Wright
  • 1709-1714 : the revolt in New York
  • by Herb Boyd
  • 1714-1719 : the slave market
  • 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"
  • Part four.
  • by Justin Phillip Reed. --
  • 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 Deirdre Cooper Owens
  • 1799-1804 : higher education
  • by Craig Steven Wilder
  • 1804-1809 : cotton
  • by Kiese Laymon
  • 1809-1814 : the Louisiana rebellion
  • by Clint Smith
  • 1814-1819 : queer sexuality
  • by Raquel Willis
  • Poem : "Remembering the Albany 3"
  • Part five.
  • by Ishmael Reed. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part six.
  • by Donika Kelly. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part seven.
  • by Mahogany L. Browne. --
  • 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 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 : Zora Neale Hurston
  • by Bernice L. McFadden
  • Poem : "Coiled and unleashed"
  • Part eight.
  • by Patricia Smith. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part nine.
  • by Chet'la Sebree. --
  • 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 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"
  • Part ten.
  • by Joshua Bennett
  • Conclusion : Our ancestors' wildest dreams
  • by Keisha N. Blain
  • 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
Control code
1184240347
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xvii, 504 pages
Isbn
9780593134047
Lccn
2020043755
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651, 655
Other control number
40030319433
System control number
(OCoLC)1184240347

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