Kendi contemplated how to commemorate the "symbolic birthday of Black America" and the whole 400-year period. As the 400th anniversary of Black Africans' arrival in British North America approached, Ibram X. A winner or finalist of multiple awards in its print and audiobook editions, Four Hundred Souls has been widely praised by reviewers for its prose and historical content.įrom 1841 to 2019, the vast majority of books telling a history of African America were written by individuals, also almost always male.
Conceived and created to commemorate the four hundred years that had passed since the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia, the book concerns African-American history and collects works written by ninety Black writers. In this ambitious, magisterial book, Kendi reveals just how deep that scar cuts and why it endures, its barely subcutaneous pain still able to flare.Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. Racism is the enduring scar on the American consciousness.
“In this tour de force, Kendi explores the history of racist ideas-and their connection with racist practices-across American history. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation’s racial inequities. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. REVISED EDITION Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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