Event name
Antiracism Reading Group
When
Thu 12 / 16 / 2021
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Where
Zoom
Who can attend
Open to all
Limited capacity: Registration Closed
Price
FREE
Organizer
Judy Canning
This month, we'll discuss Part 6-10.
Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled 90 brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. They approach history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people; through places, laws, and objects. While themes of resistance and struggle, of hope and reinvention, course through the book, this collection of diverse pieces from 90 different minds, reflecting 90 different perspectives, fundamentally deconstructs the idea that Africans in America are a monolith—instead it unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness.