Kendi co-edited Four Hundred Souls with Keisha N. Whether you know only a little about Black history or a great deal, it’s a rich and rewarding book. Kendi suggests an alternative: “Why not a Black choir singing the spiritual into the heavens of history?”įour Hundred Souls is that book, an overview of four centuries of the history of Americans of African descent, told by 90 different voices. Kendi points out in his rousing introduction to Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, histories “of Black America have almost always been written by a single individual, usually a man.”
18, 2021Īs distinguished historian Ibram X.
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