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doctoral fellow of the Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms
Breaking with the much-needed, but often painful plunges into US history of the author’s previous novels, the portrayal of the Harlem Shuffle, and the reading experience as a whole are – as intended by the author – predominantly light-hearted and entertaining. It is a heist novel set in 1960s Harlem.
more...Saidiya Hartman is a Cultural Historian and Literary Scholar whose work explores histories of slavery and its afterlives primarily in a North American context. Her vantage point for writing is oftentimes fraught and incomplete archival records that eclipse and overdetermine Black subjects’ histories.
more...Written in the style of a memoir, Broome’s book charts the complex histories of her own family as well as that of her hometown, New Orleans.
more...A Black Women’s History of the United States is a great resource for readers interested in US history in general and Black women’s role in it specifically.
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