Saturday, February 26, 2022
Eight Books Uncovering Black Histories - The Atlantic
…French's sweeping but eminently readable narrative rejects one common framing of modernity—the claim that it stemmed from the accomplishments of European figures, including those like Christopher Columbus, whose arrival in the so-called New World supposedly set North America on a course to civilization. Instead, French meticulously documents and sets out to amend "a centuries-long process of diminishment, trivialization, and erasure of Africans and of people of African descent from the story of the modern world." …
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