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Loading... Black AF History : the un-whitewashed story of Americaby Michael Harriot
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) lycomayflower | May 21, 2024 |   )2  elifra | Dec 25, 2023 | A natural storyteller, he laces even the most infuriating historical events with humor as well as justified outrage and inserts moments from his own family's tales and traditions for a personal touch. The chapters zip through hundreds of years of history, making me wish the book were twice as long so he could cover even more topics. Most chapters are followed by supplemental essays -- often short biographies of people who need to be more widely known -- and some very acidic pop quizzes. Highly recommended. FOR REFERENCE: Contents: Introduction 1. Earth, Wind, and America • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Greetings from Your Future Colonizer 2. The Church Fight That Started Slavery • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Key Terms • Supplement - Before "Before": The First African Americans • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Colonizer or Nah? • The Real Wakanda 3. The World, Recentered • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Name the Race • Ana Nzinga - The King of Queens • Supplement - The Unenslaving of Jemmy • How White People Were Invented 4. Survival and Resistance: The Black American Revolution • Supplement - Fear of a Black Nation • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity 5. Drapetomaniacs: Get Free or Die Trying • Supplement - To Kill Whites: The Multicultural Rebellion of 1811 • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: System Upgrade 6. The Negro, Spiritual • Food Stop - The Top-Secret Recipe to Aunt Phyllis's Fried Chicken • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: How Black Is Your Church? • Onesimus Saves the World 7. The Black Emancipation Proclamation : A Poem • Supplement - The Lost Cause, Explained • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Rank the Lost Causes 8. Construction • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Inhumane Resources 9. Something Else • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Lynching or Nah? • Food Stop - The Difference between Soul Food and Southern Cuisines 10. Whites Gone Wild: Uncle Rob Explains "Separate but Equal" • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: CTRL+Z for Racism • Supplement - Funny AF: The Man Who Invented Laughter 11. So Devilish a Fire: The Black Women Who Started the Civil Rights Movement • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: More Fire • Supplement - Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Queer Black Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll 12. The Race War III: The Conspiracy Theory That Was True • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Whitemare 13. Thug Life: The Other Civil Rights Movement • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Some of the Good Ones • Supplement - All-the-Way Free • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: One Good Reason 14. The Great White Heist • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Are You Invested in Inequality? • Supplement: The Black Women Who Won Reparations 15. The Race of Politics: Uncle Rob Explains the Two-Party System • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Identity Politics • Food Stop - Chicken Bog vs. Perlo • The End of the Multiracial Coalition 16. Homework • Unit Review - Three Little Questions • Unit Review - Activity: Final Exam Acknowledgments Works Not Cited: Black AF History Hacks Endnotes Index (  )2 villemezbrown | Dec 20, 2023 | )2 spinsterrevival | Oct 8, 2023 |
 In addition to telling the histories we should have been taught in school, but mostly weren't, Harriot also incorporates his personal history and anecdotes about his family into the book. Illustrations bring an additional layer of texture. And each chapter ends with a painfully entertaining unit review, styled as the questions found after history textbook chapters. Fresh eyes and bold, entertaining language combine in this authoritative, essential work of U.S. history. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
"From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights--after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history. Combining unapologetically provocative storytelling with meticulous research based on primary sources as well as the work of pioneering Black historians, scholars, and journalists, Harriot removes the white sugarcoating from the American story, placing Black people squarely at the center. With incisive wit, Harriot speaks hilarious truth to oppressive power, subverting conventional historical narratives with little-known stories about the experiences of Black Americans. From the African Americans who arrived before 1619 to the unenslavable bandit who inspired America's first police force, this long overdue corrective provides a revealing look into our past that is as urgent as it is necessary. For too long, we have refused to acknowledge that American history is white history. Not this one. This history is Black AF"-- No library descriptions found. |
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