William Barber, Angela Davis and Alicia Garza. There are historians, of course, like Annette Gordon-Reed and Isabel Wilkerson, journalists like Jamelle Bouie and Nikole Hannah-Jones, activists like the Rev. They have assembled a stellar list of Black writers to contribute to Four Hundred Souls. She has written or edited a number of books and has led several crowd-sourced reading list projects, including #Charlestonsyllabus and Trump Syllabus 2.0. from Princeton, who has published extensively on race, gender and politics. Kendi.Ĭo-editor Blain is a professor of African American history at the University of Pittsburgh, with a Ph.D. Mellon endowed professorship at Boston University. His bestselling How to Be an Antiracist topped antiracist reading lists in the summer of 2020, the same year that Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Florida readers were familiar with Kendi before he became a national figure - he was a professor at the University of Florida when he published Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which in 2016 made him the youngest winner ever (at 34) of the National Book Award for nonfiction. Kendi co-edited Four Hundred Souls with Keisha N. Whether you know only a little about Black history or a great deal, it’s a rich and rewarding book. Kendi suggests an alternative: “Why not a Black choir singing the spiritual into the heavens of history?”įour Hundred Souls is that book, an overview of four centuries of the history of Americans of African descent, told by 90 different voices.
Kendi points out in his rousing introduction to Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, histories “of Black America have almost always been written by a single individual, usually a man.” 18, 2021Īs distinguished historian Ibram X.
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