Four Hundred Souls

An impressive and illuminating collection that rejects Blackness in America as a singular experience and instead illustrates the range of Black experiences and voices * Time, 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021 *A polyphonic work that unites writers, historians, lawyers, poets and activists … From Morgan Parker’s poem Before Revolution to writer Bernice L McFadden’s soaring exploration of Zora Neale Hurston’s genre-defining writing, it’s something quite incredible * Stylist *Highly readable and far more compelling than a mere historical digest would have been … This collection teaches us that nothing about the latest crisis is new … a vital addition to that curriculum on race in America and should serve as a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir * Washington Post *A provocative, stirring anthology … Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence * O: The Oprah Magazine, 20 of the Best Books of February 2021 to Fall in Love With *

Ibram X. Kendi (Author)

Ibram X. Kendi is one of the world’s leading antiracist scholars. He is Professor of History and the inaugural director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Studies. His many books include Stamped from the Beginning- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and How To Be an Antiracist, which was a number one New York Times bestseller and a Sunday Times bestseller. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Grant, and in 2020 Time named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Keisha N. Blain (Author)

Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian, professor and writer. She is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, the president of the African American Intellectual History Society, and an editor for the Washington Post’s ‘Made by History’ section. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Guardian, Politico and Time. She is the author of Set the World on Fire- Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom and Until I Am Free- Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.

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