Professor Kendi is also the author of How to Be an Antiracist and, most recently, the children’s book Antiracist Baby. Mellon professor in the humanities, also the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Kendi is the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research and the Andrew W. Keisha Blain is associate professor of history at University of Pittsburgh, also the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom, just got a new contract to write a new book. It brings together prominent Black writers to collaborate on what they call a “choral history” of Black American life in 80 short essays by people like the renowned scholar and activist Angela Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who writes in the opening chapter, quote, “This is our story.
The book is titled Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. They’ve just edited a book that puts the white supremacists who rallied around President Trump and the uprising against racism and police brutality that we saw last year into the longer arc of U.S. We’re speaking with two of this country’s leading historians. “They recognized the significance of this project as a work of history - being history in and of itself.”ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The Quarantine Report. Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, says despite the mammoth undertaking in the midst of the pandemic, all the contributors were excited to take part. “We wanted to bring together so many different voices from so many different backgrounds within the Black community to really share the history of this incredibly diverse and complex community,” says Kendi, director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019” brings together prominent Black writers to collaborate on what they call a “choral history” of Black American life in 80 short essays, including by the renowned scholar and activist Angela Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and others.
Kendi and Keisha Blain, co-editors of a new book that situates the white supremacists who rallied around Trump in the longer arc of U.S. deals with the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S.
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