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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Biografie, Slavernij

Angela F. Murphy – Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie

Angela F. Murphy Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie review, recensie en informatie boek over de koning van Underground Railroad. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Black Lives de biografie van abolitionist Jermain Wesley Loguen. Het boek is geschreven door Angela F. Murphy. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Angela F. Murphy Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie review en recensie

  • “For too long, Loguen’s incredible activism, courage, and contributions to Black freedom have been understudied. For his life, we owe Loguen a great debt. For Angela Murphy’s painstaking scholarship, we owe deep gratitude.” (Kellie Carter Jackson)
  • “Angela F. Murphy, author of the definitive study of the ‘Jerry Rescue,’ has written a superb biography of a leader of that struggle, the Reverend Jermain Loguen, himself a fugitive slave from middle Tennessee.” (R.J.M. Blackett)
  • “Murphy shines a brilliant spotlight on a vital but underappreciated abolitionist. This is the definitive account of a defiant fugitive who sought, for himself and others, a land for the free and homes for the brave.” (W. Caleb McDaniel)

Angela F. Murphy Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie

Jermain Wesley Loguen

Defiant Fugitive

  • Auteur: Angela F. Murphy (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Black Lives
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 312 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Jermain Wesley Loguen

A gripping biography of a man who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the King of the Underground Railroad.

Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813–1872) was a fugitive from slavery, an abolitionist, and a minister, teacher, and political activist. He worked alongside Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and his home in Syracuse, New York, was among the most publicized Underground Railroad stations in the northern states. Loguen’s political commitments in the years before the Civil War were carried out at great personal risk, for he had liberated himself from slavery in Tennessee and was in constant danger of being captured and reenslaved under the Fugitive Slave Law. Defiantly, however, he refused to purchase his own freedom, an act that he believed would have legitimized the rights of slaveholders. In addition to aiding fellow fugitives from slavery, Loguen worked tirelessly to promote Black equality and uplift throughout upstate New York and Canada. After Emancipation, he extended his work to aid freedpeople in the South and to advocate for Black equality on a national scale.

In this engaging study, Angela F. Murphy follows Loguen from his early years through his transformation into one of the brightest stars in the constellation of abolitionists and reformers in New York.

Angela F. Murphy is a professor in the Department of History at Texas State University. She is the author of The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis. She lives in Wimberley, Texas.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Essays, Memoir

Tochi Onyebuchi – Racebook

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook review and information of the content of essays, memoir and a personal history of the Internet by the American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer. Grove Atlantic will publish the new Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore novel, on October 21, 2025. 

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook reviews

  • “We are in the best, most absolute trouble, y’all, because Tochi Onyebuchi writes as well as he understands the internet, which means he writes as well as humans run from accountable desire. Racebook is absolutely singular in the history of book-making, and the love shown to Black folks and our internet here is as textured as anything Morrison made. We are in trouble, the best, most uprooting trouble, and I am thankful.” (Kiese Laymon, bestselling author of Long Division and Heavy)
  • “Starkly original, provocative and brilliantly executed, Racebook warrants our undivided attention. Onyebuchi is a sage observer of this fractured moment and among the internet’s keenest interlocutors.”(Jelani Cobb, author of Three or More is a Riot and New Yorker Staff Writer)
  • “Beginning with the adulation of Black cosplayers seizing physical and intellectual properties long coded as white spaces, [Onyebuchi] writes a memoir that contemplates his life online . . . There is personal history throughout, but the essays are global reflections on internet culture more than traditional memoir. Onyebuchi captures several universal moments of a generation growing up online but pushes the narrative further to encompass how it intersected with his offline world.” (Library Journal)

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook

Racebook

A Personal History of the Internet

  • Author: Tochi Onyebuchi (United States)
  • Book type: essays. memoir
  • Publisher: Grove Atlantic
  • Released: 21 October 2025
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00 /
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book by Tochi Onyebuchi

When Tochi Onyebuchi realized his acclaimed science fiction and fantasy career had been centrally preoccupied with race, it prompted him to consider his responsibilities as a Black writer in the internet age. In brilliantly crafted essays, Onyebuchi excavates the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s, tracing his online persona back to its origins to explore how both evolved in the ensuing decades. Brimming with voracious curiosity and razor-sharp wit, Racebook is a penetrating meditation on how identity and race are forged in the crucible of being online.

Beginning with the current moment when everything is a matter of dispute, back to Web 1.0’s promises of greater equality and a bright digital future, Onyebuchi deftly examines internet culture and its role in shaping our perception of ourselves, our world, and the potential realities we can envision. From the ever-changing nature of personal writing and free expression, to gaming, manga, fandom, and virtual reality, Racebook considers the internet alongside works of literature both classic and new, asking if our vision for what is possible has really broadened. And given the inequities Black people still face, on and off the page, does the internet only amplify our failures of imagination?

An original investigation of race through the lens of the modern internet age and an affecting journey into the heart of community online, Racebook argues for recognizing the individual behind the binary code that shapes our digital lives. As Onyebuchi asks, “Is this a race book or is it not? Is it either-or? Can it be both-and? Can I?”

Tochi Onyebuchi was born October 4, 1987 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist and author of Goliath, Riot Baby, the Beasts Made of Night series, and the War Girls series. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His nonfiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. He has earned degrees from Yale University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia Law School, and the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He currently resides in Connecticut.

Matching books

Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Jazzmuziek, Muziek

John Gennari – The Jazz Barn

John Gennari The Jazz Barn review, recensie en informatie boek over de Music Inn, de Berkshires en de plaats van jazz in het Amerikaanse leven. Op 15 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Brandeis University Press het boek van John Gennari over hoe Lenox een klein stadje in New England een thuishaven voor Amerikaanse jazz werd. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek beschikbaar.

John Gennari The Jazz Barn review en recensie

  • “A brilliant meditation on art, place, and the political imagination as they entwined to the sound of jazz in postwar New England. Dazzling cultural analysis slyly delivered as a lively untold story.” (David Hajdu)

John Gennari The Jazz Barn

The Jazz Barn

Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

  • Auteur: John Gennari (Verenigde Staten)
  • Foto’s: Clemens Kalischer
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Brandeis University Press
  • Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 254 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over het thuis van de jazz in New England

How a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place.

This is a book about what happened in the 1950s in a barn, an icehouse, and a greenhouse in the verdant Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Against the backdrop of McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the expansion of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and postwar cultural tourism, two New Yorkers bought part of a sprawling estate in Lenox, where they converted an old barn and other outbuildings into an inn that could host musical performances and seminars. The Berkshire Music Barn went on to host jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday, as well as jazz roundtables grounded in folkloric approaches to the music.

The Jazz Barn explores the cultural significance of venues like the Berkshire Music Barn and later the Lenox School of Jazz to tell a surprising story about race, culture, and place. John Gennari explores how a predominantly white New England town became a haven for African American musicians, and reveals the Berkshires as an important incubator not just of American literature and classical music but also of the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ornette Coleman’s “new thing.” The Berkshire Music Barn became a crucial space for the mainstreaming of jazz. By the late 1950s, the School of Jazz was an epicenter of the genre’s avant-garde.

Richly illustrated with the photographs of Clemens Kalischer among others, The Jazz Barn demonstrates that the locations where jazz is played and heard indelibly shape the music and its meanings.

John Gennari is professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge and Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Oorlog, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten

Stanley Sandler – Segregated Skies

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies review, recensie en informatie boek over Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op 1 september 2025 verschijnt bij Grécy Publishing het boek Segregated Skies, Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek over segregatie in het Amerikaanse leger tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Segregated Skies, Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2, het boek geschreven door Stanley Sandler, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies

Segregated Skies

Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2

  • Auteur: Stanley Sandler (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Grécy Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 1 september 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 34,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2 boek

A definitive account of the formation and operation of the segregated all black US squadrons which served in the Second World War.

The Tuskegee airmen as they came to be called took their name from Tuskegee Institute (now University) where they were educated, which was located near Tuskegee Alabama. Many of these first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces came from states where blacks were still subject to the Jim Crow Laws. The American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government and the Tuskegee Airmen were frequently subjected to discrimination, both within and outside of the army.

The book goes into much detail on decisions made and not made at the highest military and civilian levels in wartime Washington as to the founding, use and value of a racially-segregated all-Black fighter squadrons. In the end, a decision had to be between a Black squadron or no Black squadron at all. The resultant 99th Fighter Squadron and the follow-on 100th, 201st and 203rd squadrons were decisive in opening the way for full US military integration a full decade before America’s civilian society began to go the same way.

This account of these squadrons examines the background to their formation, their training and operations in theatre. The book is based on interviews with many of the Tuskegee Airmen themselves. This is supported by research in USAF archives. The work deals not just with the pilots and their warplanes in battle but also with their everyday life on air bases in the segregated Deep South and in the field in wartime Italy.

Stanley Sandler is a retired military historian who has taught at the college and university level in the U.S. and Canada. He has published numerous peer-reviewed books and articles on military, naval and air power history. His last active history position was as Assistant Command Historian at the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center and School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He holds the B.A. (Houghton College) the M.A. (Columbia University) and the Ph. D. (Kings College, London University) where he studied under Sir Michael Howard.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1912 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  auteur James Weldon Johnson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review en recensie

In deze baanbrekende, nog altijd actuele roman uit 1912 beschrijft de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Weldon Johnson op indrukwekkende wijze de innerlijke ontwikkeling van een zwarte en getalenteerde man, die in een door segregatie doordrongen maatschappij probeert om te gaan met de beperkingen die het geïnstitutionaliseerde racisme hem oplegt. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

In this groundbreaking, still relevant 1912 novel, African-American writer James Weldon Johnson impressively describes the inner development of a black and talented man who, in a society permeated by segregation, tries to cope with the limitations imposed on him by institutionalized racism. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

  • Auteur: James Weldon Johnson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1912
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Macmillan Collector’s Library
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review en recensie

In deze baanbrekende, nog altijd actuele roman uit 1912 beschrijft de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Weldon Johnson op indrukwekkende wijze de innerlijke ontwikkeling van een zwarte en getalenteerde man, die in een door segregatie doordrongen maatschappij probeert om te gaan met de beperkingen die het geïnstitutionaliseerde racisme hem oplegt. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

In this groundbreaking, still relevant 1912 novel, African-American writer James Weldon Johnson impressively describes the inner development of a black and talented man who, in a society permeated by segregation, tries to cope with the limitations imposed on him by institutionalized racism. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)

Flaptekst van de roman van James Weldon Johnson uit 1912

“I became painfully conscious of a difference between myself and the boys with whom I played.” (James Weldon Johnson)

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between race and class in late nineteenth-century America.

After losing his mother at a very young age, the narrator is thrust from his comfortable, middle-class environment, afforded by his distant but aristocratic father, into the wider world. His passion for music begins in Georgia’s all-black church community and takes him from New York, where he plays ragtime for a rich white gentleman, to the South, where he witnesses lynchings and out of fear gives up his passion, as well as his race, to pass for white.

Relevant to this day, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an unflinching account of black experience in America.

James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida,  on 17 June 1871. He trained in music and in 1901 moved to New York with his brother John; together they wrote around two hundred songs The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson novel from 1912 first editionfor Broadway. His first book, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, published anonymously in 1912, was not a great success until he reissued it in his own name in 1927. In that time he established his reputation as a writer and became known in the Harlem Renaissance for his poems and for collating anthologies of poems by other black writers. Through his work as a civil rights activist he became the first executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as the first African American professor to be hired at New York University. He died on 26 June 1938 in Wiscasset, Maine, at the age of 67.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Debuutroman

Victor Suthammanont – Hollow Spaces

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review, recensie en informatie roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver en advocaat. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press het boek en debuut van Victor Suthammanont. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review en recensie

  • “Cerebral, sexy, and provocative, Hollow Spaces is a can’t-put-down exploration of marriage, infidelity, and murder. Every page is steeped in sophisticated commentary on the far reaching effects of violence. A smart, compelling read that pays particular attention to the nuances of family and what both brings people together and tears them apart.” (Lo Patrick)
  • “Brennan and Hunter Lo, the children of a lawyer who was found innocent of murder but saw his life destroyed anyway, have spent their lives avoiding all sorts of truths, and each other. Hollow Spaces is the twisty, compelling, well-written, and human story of what happens when they join together to understand the father they lost, and the crime that ripped their lives apart.” (Jamie Harrison)

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces

Hollow Spaces

  • Auteur: Victor Suthammanont (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het debuut van Victor Suthammanont

The only Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family.

Thirty years ago, John Lo was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their opposing convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation,  Hollow Spaces is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

Victor Suthammanont is a lawyer and author. Hollow Spaces is his debut novel. He lives in New York City.

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Brievenboek, Nederlandse Schrijver

Akwasi – Brieven aan Anton de Kom

Akwasi Brieven aan Anton de Kom recensie en informatie nieuw boek van de Nederlandse schrijver, rapper en dichter van Ghanese afkomst. Op 17 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos het nieuwe boek van Akwasi. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Akwasi Brieven aan Anton de Kom recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Brieven aan Anton de Kom, het nieuwe boek van Akwasi, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Akwasi Brieven aan Anton de Kom

Brieven aan Anton de Kom

Wees moedig. Wees gevreesd. Wees verstandig. Wees geliefd.

  • Auteur: Akwasi (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: brievenboek
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 128 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 20,00 / € 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Akwasi

Akwasi neemt je mee op een reis van denken over vrijheid, moed en verandering. Het biedt inzicht in de nalatenschap van Anton de Kom en de betekenis voor de hedendaagse samenleving.

In juni 2023 hield schrijver en performer Akwasi de jaarlijkse Anton de Komlezing in het Verzetsmuseum. In een drietal brieven richtte hij zich tot de schrijver van Wij slaven van Suriname. Akwasi vertelt aan De Kom over verzet, de huidige staat van Nederland en waarom radicale verandering soms nodig is. Hij blikt terug op zijn ervaringen in het zwartepietendebat, vertelt over de noodzaak van de oprichting van Omroep Zwart en gaat in op de strijd voor vrijheid.

Wees moedig. Wees gevreesd. Wees verstandig. bevat de integrale lezing van Akwasi en is aangevuld met twee extra brieven. Het resultaat is een krachtig document dat aanzet tot denken.

Akwasi is op 6 maart 1988 geboren te Amsterdam als Akwasi Owusu Ansah. Hij is performer, schrijver en een opinieleider in het debat over racisme en het slavernijverleden. Hij staat bekend om zijn betrokkenheid bij maatschappelijke kwesties en zijn inzet voor gelijkheid en sociale rechtvaardigheid. Als fervent activist heeft Akwasi deelgenomen aan talloze demonstraties, waarbij hij zijn stem verhief tegen racisme en discriminatie. In 2020 richtte hij Omroep Zwart op, een mediaplatform dat streeft naar diversiteit en inclusie in de Nederlandse media.

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Tessa Leuwsha Boni recensieTessa Leuwsha (Suriname) – Boni
In het spoor van de Surinaamse vrijheidsstrijder
Uitgever: Atlas Contact
Verschijnt: 27 mei 2025

Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Politieke Boeken

Mark Whitaker – The Afterlife of Malcolm X

Mark Whitaker The Afterlife of Malcolm X review, recensie en informatie boek over de blijvende impact van een outcast die een icoon werd in Amerika. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse journalist Mark Whitaker over de blijvende invloed op cultuur, politiek en burgerrechten van Malcolm X. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Mark Whitaker The Afterlife of Malcolm X review en recensie

  • “Apart from providing a fascinating detective story, Whitaker documents the sometimes surprising ways in which Malcolm X remains a model of Black resistance—as, for example, an opera that “became a vehicle for making Malcolm newly relevant to the ‘Black Panther’ generation,” as well as the renewed interest in him with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. A complex, thoughtfully written book that ably lives up to its title.” (Kirkus)
  • “The Afterlife of Malcolm X is a sumptuous, essential book.” (Minnesota Star Tribune)
  • “Whitaker traces the vast streaks of light left by ‘our black shining prince’ across space and time since the shock of his cruel and brutal murder at the Audubon Ballroom in New York in February 1965. The lives Malcolm X has touched, generation to generation, from Eldridge Cleaver to Amiri Baraka, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Spike Lee, Public Enemy to Black Lives Matter, make for an impressive and wide-ranging cultural history. At the same time, Whitaker reveals the stories of reporters and filmmakers who have dedicated themselves to finding justice not only for Malcolm but for those who did and did not take his life. His legacy lives on.” (Henry Louis Gates Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Black Church)

Mark Whitaker The Afterlife of Malcolm X

The Afterlife of Malcolm X

An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America

  • Auteur: Mark Whitaker (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook  / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,99 / $ 16,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de invloed van Malcolm X na zijn dood

Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X’s influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.

Malcolm X has become as much of an American icon as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King. But when he was murdered in 1965, he was still seen as a dangerous outsider. White America found him alienating, mainstream African Americans found him divisive, and even his admirers found him bravely radical. Although Ossie Davis famously eulogized Malcolm X as “our own Black shining prince,” he never received the mainstream acceptance toward which he seemed to be striving in his final year. It is more in death than his life that Malcolm’s influence has blossomed and come to leave a deep imprint on the cultural landscape of America.

With impeccable research and original reporting, Mark Whitaker tells the story of Malcolm X’s far-reaching posthumous legacy. It stretches from founders of the Black Power Movement such as Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton to hip-hop pioneers such as Public Enemy and Tupac Shakur. Leaders of the Black Arts and Free Jazz movements from Amiri Baraka to Maya Angelou, August Wilson, and John Coltrane credited their political awakening to Malcolm, as did some of the most influential athletes of our time, from Muhammad Ali to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and beyond. Spike’s movie biopic and the Black Lives Matter movement reintroduced Malcolm to subsequent generations. Across the political spectrum, he has been cited as a formative influence by both Barack Obama—who venerated Malcolm’s “unadorned insistence on respect”—and Clarence Thomas, who was drawn to Malcolm’s messages of self-improvement and economic self-help.

In compelling new detail, Whitaker also retraces the long road to exoneration for two men wrongfully convicted of Malcolm’s murder, making The Afterlife of Malcolm X essential reading for anyone interested in true crime, American politics, culture, and history.

Mark Whitaker was born 7 September 1957 in  Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. He is the former editor of Newsweek and the first African American to lead a national newsweekly. He then served as Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide. Whitaker’s memoir My Long Trip Home was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His social histories Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance and Saying it Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement were both named among the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post.

Bijpassende boeken en informatie

Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus, Amerikaanse journalist

Elaine Weiss – Spell Freedom

Elaine Weiss Spell Freedom recensie, review en informatie boek over de ondergrondse scholen die de burgerrechtenbeweging hebben opgebouwd. Op 4 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Atria/One Signal Publishers het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijfster Elaine Weiss . Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Elaine Weiss Weiss Spell Freedom recensie, review en informatie

  • “A richly researched and detailed new history of the underground schools that sprang up throughout the South…. Although Civil Rights leaders march through these pages, Weiss prefers the company of the unsung , the members of the irresistible army, the beauticians and bus drivers who risked their lives and their families’ well-being… Weiss is the author of two previous histories that elevated ordinary women doing extraordinary things [and] is highly attuned to the ingrained patriarchy of the era, including in much of the Civil Rights Movement, where women were the boots on the ground while men took leadership roles (and higher salaries).” (Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal Constitution)
  • “Spell Freedom is a beautifully crafted and dramatic tale that testifies to the resilience of America’s dreamers and freedom fighters. How did so many ordinary people find the courage to stand up for their rights? How did they organize? How did they overcome apathy and disillusion? Elaine Weiss answers these timely questions in a brilliant book that illuminates not only the past but also a path forward.” (Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life)

Elaine Weiss Spell Freedom

Spell Freedom

The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

  • Auteur Elaine Weiss (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria / One Signal Publishers
  • Verschijnt: 4 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek /  ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de ondergrondse scholen van de burgerrechtenbeweging

In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural Tennessee’s Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by Myles Horton, a white southerner with roots in the labor movement. There, the trio united behind a shared mission: preparing Black southerners to pass the daunting Jim Crow era voter registration literacy tests that were designed to disenfranchise them.

Together with beautician-turned-teacher Bernice Robinson, they launched the underground Citizenship Schools project, which began with a single makeshift classroom hidden in the back of a rural grocery store. By the time the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, the secretive undertaking had established more than nine hundred citizenship schools across the South, preparing tens of thousands of Black citizens to read and write, demand their rights—and vote. Simultaneously, it nurtured a generation of activists—many of them women—trained in community organizing, political citizenship, and tactics of resistance and struggle who became the grassroots foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King called Septima Clark, “Mother of the Movement.”

Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist, author, and public speaker. In addition to Spell Freedom, she is the author of Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army of the Great War; and The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Elaine lives with her husband in Baltimore, Maryland. Find out more at ElaineWeiss.com.

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Tamika D. Mallory – I Lived to Tel the Story

Tamika D. Mallory I Lived to Tel the Story recensie, review en informatie memoir van de Amerikaanse burgerrechtenactiviste. Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Atria / Black Privilege Publishing A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience, geschreven door Tamika D. Mallory. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Tamika D. Mallory I Lived to Tel the Story recensie, review en informatie

  • “A masterful book…reaffirms the urgency of the current state of Black people in America and the power we all have to win transformative change.” (Mark Lamont Hill)
  • “Shifting between outrage, hope, and resolute determination, this call to action will resonate with readers already fighting for racial justice, as well as those looking to join the movement.” (Publishers Weekly)

Tamika D. Mallory I Lived to Tel the Story

I Lived to Tel the Story

A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience

  • Auteur: Tamika D. Mallory (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria / Black Privilege Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van Tamika D. Mallory

A raw, heartfelt memoir of perseverance, redemption, and triumph from Tamika D. Mallory, trailblazing social justice leader, activist, and cofounder of the Women’s March.

In I Lived to Tell the Story, Tamika Mallory takes us beyond the headlines and podiums, offering an unfiltered look at the moments that shaped her—not just as an activist but as a woman navigating love, loss, and self-discovery.

From her early days as the daughter of civil rights organizers in Harlem to her battles with the personal pain that many never imagined—the trauma of sexual assault, the pressures of motherhood, the fallout of public scrutiny, and the fight to reclaim her peace—this is Tamika as the world has never seen her before.

A follow-up to her “masterful” (Marc Lamont Hill) debut, State of Emergency, which confronted the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, this memoir ventures deeper into her journey. Tamika shares untold stories of resilience, courage, and internal struggles while waging war against injustice in America.

At its core, I Lived to Tell the Story is not just about activism; it’s about what happens after the smoke clears. It’s about healing, survival, and the power of truth to bring us closer to ourselves and one another.

Tamika D. Mallory was born 4 September 1980 in Manhattan, New York. She is a trailblazing social justice leader, movement strategist, globally recognized civil rights activist, cofounder of Until Freedom and the historic Women’s March, and author of I Lived to Tell the Story and State of Emergency. She served as the youngest ever executive director of the National Action Network. Her speech in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota—entitled “State of Emergency”—was dubbed “the speech of a generation” by ABC News. Mallory is an expert in the areas of gun violence prevention, criminal justice reform, and grassroots organizing.

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