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From 1841 to 2019, the vast majority of books telling a history of African America were written by individuals, also almost always male. [1] As the 400th anniversary of Black Africans' arrival in British North America approached, Ibram X. Kendi contemplated how to commemorate the "symbolic birthday of Black America" and the whole 400-year period.
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is a 1985 collection of twenty-four folktales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. They encompass animal tales (including tricksters ), fairy tales , supernatural tales , and tales of the enslaved Africans (including slave narratives ).
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans is an American illustrated picture book for young adult readers, originally published by HarperCollins in 2011. Kadir Nelson , both the author and illustrator, writes from the perspective of an unnamed narrator and reviews significant events in African-American history .
African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.
Begin Again (book) Between the World and Me; Black Awakening in Capitalist America; The Black Book (Morrison book) Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920; Black Dixie; The Black Friend; The Black History of the White House; The Black Man; Black Mathematicians and Their Works; Black Power and the American Myth ...
The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad. The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the culture of Scotch-Irish Americans who migrated from the British Isles to the Antebellum South.