Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days
Review Quotes: "Black Freedom documents the perseverance, resistance, and, more importantly, the unquenchable joy that is an indelible part of the Black American backstory. Kelley doesn't give us an account; she gives us our account....
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Review Quotes: "Black Freedom documents the perseverance, resistance, and, more importantly, the unquenchable joy that is an indelible part of the Black American backstory. Kelley doesn't give us an account; she gives us our account. This is history as it should be told." -- Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryReview Quotes: "Blair Kelley's language sings--each sentence shaped with a poet's care, each page alive with the unshakable resolve of Black people. Black Freedom is more than a book; it is a chorus of memory and hope." -- Bettina Love, New York Times bestselling author of Punished for DreamingBiographical Note: Blair LM Kelley is an award-winning author, historian, and scholar of the African American experience. She is also the president and director of the National Humanities Center, the only independent center for advanced study in the world dedicated exclusively to the humanities. Kelley is the author of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship (2010) which was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize and Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (2023), which received the 2024 Brooklyn Library Book Award, the 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, the 2024 Philip Taft Labor History Prize, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in History. Table of Contents: Introduction Emancipation: The Long Fight for Freedom Texas and the Meaning of Juneteenth Celebrations of Black Freedom Jubilee Today Review Quotes: "This is a portal. This is time travel facilitated by one of the great historians of our time. Thanks to Blair Kelley, we can go to an important fissure in the story of domination. We can wonder new wonderings and ask new questions about freedom. We can look love in the face and see what it is asking of us now."-- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, award-winning author of Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Review Quotes: "An antidote to the images of Black suffering that seem to dominate the cultural imagination. . . Black Freedom is an ode to joy, pride and resistance." -- BookPage, STARRED REVIEWReview Quotes: "Engaging, illuminating commentary that establishes historical context. . . . Addictive browsing." -- Booklist |