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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot retells American history from the perspective of Black people whose labor, resistance, ideas, and institutions are often minimized in standard accounts. With sharp humor and extensive research, he revisits colonization, slavery, revolution, expansion, Reconstruction, segregation, civil rights, politics, culture, and economics. Familiar myths are tested against evidence, while overlooked figures and events reveal how race shaped the country's development. Harriot's “un-whitewashed” history is both corrective and argument: Black history is not a specialized supplement but essential to understanding what America has been and what it claims to be.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 2022
Format: Print edition
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780358439165

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History: African American (History)History: Historiography History: Social History History: United States – 21st Century History: United States – Civil War Period (1850 – 1877)History: United States – General Political Science: History & Theory – General Social Science: Black Studies (Global)Social Science: Ethnic Studies – African American Studies

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