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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Detriot :
Wayne State University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Burden
- The Armor We Still Need
- A Military Family, Descended from Slaves
- Remnants of Survival: Black Women and Legacies of Defiance
- Quiet Defiance
- Living without a Beginning
- Forged by Fire
- Eternal Bondage
- Sports Industries as Plantations
- What Slavery Means to Me
- If America Had Believed That Black Girls Were Girls
- Kalief Browder: A Life Marked for Death
- An Abomination, but You Got Fed
- Object Lessons: Re-encountering Slavery through Rose's Gift
- Chasing My Past on a Different Map
- Our Internal War: Embracing a Greatness That Should Be Normal
- The Footprint of America's Racial Struggle in Cuba
- Lemonade: The Duality of a Black Woman's Devotion in the Shadow of Slave Culture
- It's Not Just Hair
- The Weapon of Narrative and the African American Story
- Our New Civil Rights Movement Will Begin in Our Schools
- The Black Press
- More Needed Than Ever
- Big Mama's Money: A Lasting Lesson from Bondage: Don't Be a Slave to Debt
- Catching Hands: African Americans and Everyday Rebellions
- Notes
- Author Biographies
