Reclaiming the Black Past keyword-national-book-award Pierre Rosanvallon

Pierre Rosanvallon

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Reclaiming the Black Past keyword-national-book-award Pierre RosanvallonIn this information overloaded twenty first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things are certain. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all think historically on a routine basis. And our perceptions of history, including African American history, have not necessarily been shaped by professional historians. In this wide reaching and timely book, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie argues that public