The Burden : African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery /

This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Auslander, Mark (essayist.), Hannah-Jones, Nikole (foreword.), Riley, Rochelle (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detriot : Wayne State University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales.
Slavery > United States > History.
United States.
Essais.
Essays.
History.
essays.
Essay
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Nikole Hannah-Jones
  • Introduction
  • The burden / Rochelle Riley
  • The armor we still need / A'Lelia Bundles
  • A military family, descended from slaves / Benet J. Wilson
  • Remnants of survival: black women and legacies of defiance / Charlene A. Carruthers
  • Quiet defiance / Aku Kadogo
  • Living without a beginning / Patrice Gaines
  • Forged by fire / Tim Reid
  • Eternal bondage / Leonard Pitts Jr.
  • Sports industries as plantations / Kevin B. Blackistone
  • What slavery means to me / Betty DeRamus
  • If America had believed that black girls were girls / Tamara Winfrey-Harris
  • Kalief Browder: a life marked for death / Vann R. Newkirk II
  • An abomination, but you got fed / Julianne Malveaux
  • Object lessons: re-encountering slavery through Rose's gift / Mark Auslander
  • Chasing my past on a different map / Paula Williams Madison
  • Our internal war: embracing a greatness that should be normal / Aisha Hinds
  • The footprint of America's racial struggle in Cuba / DeWayne Wickham
  • Lemonade: the duality of a black woman's devotion in the shadow of slave culture / Tonya M. Matthews
  • It's not just hair / T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
  • The weapon of narrative and the African American story / Michael Simanga
  • Our new civil rights movement will begin in our schools / Torrance G. Latham
  • The black press
  • more needed than ever / Herb Boyd
  • Big Mama's money: a lasting lesson from bondage: don't be a slave to debt / Michelle Singletary
  • Catching hands: African Americans and everyday rebellions / Carolyn Edgar
  • Notes
  • Author biographies.

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