TY - BOOK AU - Kendi,Ibram X. AU - Blain,Keisha N. TI - Four Hundred Souls: a community history of African America, 1619-2019 SN - 9780593134047 AV - E185 .F625 2021 U1 - 973/.0496073 23 PY - 2021///] CY - New York PB - One World KW - African Americans KW - History KW - United States KW - Race relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-442) and index N2 - "A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"-- ER -