He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. With a diverse range of up-and-coming scholars, activists, and writers exploring topics both familiar and obscure, this energetic collection stands apart from standard anthologies of African American history." - Publishers Weekly "An engrossing anthology of essays, biographical sketches, and poems by Black writers tracing the history of the African American experience from the arrival of the first slaves in 1619 to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. 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. 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.
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.
The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. 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.įour Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. 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. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. BlainĪ chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history's great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X.
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