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Scholarship on the African American experience and extensive, deep and broad. Below find fifteen recent books that explore the complexity of the Black past and present.
Keisha Blain, Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America (2021)
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America - Zinn Education Project (zinnedproject.org)
Brandon Byrd, The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti (2021)
Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd's 'The Black Republic' | AAIHS
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (2022)
The life of a 'Civil Rights Queen' : Code Switch : NPR
Kinshasha Holman Conwil and Paul Gardullo, eds Making Good Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies (2021)
Make Good the Promises | National Museum of African American History and Culture (si.edu)
Thulani Davis, The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom (2022)
Duke University Press - The Emancipation Circuit (dukeupress.edu)
Thulani Davis’s Freedom Visions | The Nation
Jarvius Givens, Fugitive Peadagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (2021)
Fugitive Pedagogy — Jarvis R. Givens (jarvisgivens.com)
Fugitive Pedagogy | Harvard Magazine
Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa and the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (2019)
A Fistful of Shells (penguin.co.uk)
A Fistful of Shells by Toby Green review – the west African slave trade | History books | The Guardian
Andrew Jarrett, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird (2022)
Gene Andrew Jarrett ’97 Details the Life of Poet and Writer Paul Laurence Dunbar | Princeton Alumni Weekly
The Legacy of a Caged Bird: On Gene Andrew Jarrett’s “Paul Laurence Dunbar” - Los Angeles Review of Books (lareviewofbooks.org)
Peniel Joseph, The Third Reconstuction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2022)
The United States Needs a Third Reconstruction - The Atlantic
The Perils and Promise of America's Third Reconstruction | Time
Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African American, 1619-2019 (2021)
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain: 9780593449349 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Katie Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (2021)
Interview: Kate Masur, Author Of 'Until Justice Be Done' : NPR
Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (2020)
'The Dead Are Arising' Sheds Light On Malcolm X — And Those That Influenced Him : NPR
Barbara Ransby, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (2018)
Making All Black Lives Matter by Barbara Ransby - Paperback - University of California Press (ucpress.edu)
Jeffrey Stewart. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (2017)
Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic” ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)
Kidada E. Williams. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terrorand Survival in the War Against Reconstruction (2023)
Kidada Williams on I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction - Zinn Education Project (zinnedproject.org)