Book jacket image for Black Folk by Blair LM Kelley

Liveright

9781631496554

STARRED REVIEW

Black Folk

Black Folk illuminates the intelligence, sense of community, hard work, resilience and courage of the Black working class, whose members have made crucial contributions to American history.

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Review of ‘Black Folk’

Historian Blair LM Kelley writes, “Our national mythos leaves little room for Black workers, or to glean any lessons from their histories. . . . Never mind that from slavery to the present, Black workers have been essential to the nation’s productivity, and indeed . . . to its basic functioning.” The director of the…

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