![]() ![]() ![]() It is not a comprehensive, consistent coverage of 400 years in Black America. I have read dozens of books now on the black experience in America, and this is like cocktail party hors d'oeuvres. Ultimately, it reminded me of going to a conference on a particular topic: medical, technological, educational, artistic, etc., where the conference attendees get to choose from a variety of speakers, many of whose lectures or panels do not relate to each other than in the broadest scope of the conference theme. Others barely wrote about persons or events for the assigned periods, but waxed philosophically about wide concepts that could have applied to much wider issues and time periods. Some authors clearly tried to draw out historical context for their assigned time period. On the other hand, it is not always faithful to the 5 year chunks of American history that each essay represents, and the depth of focus in each essay is quite variable. Show More qualified to rate the limited amount of poetry), and it has a variety of approaches to the topic at hand. ![]()
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