This is the second video in our series doing a deep dive into the book I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America. This video is meant to accompany last week’s newsletter which you can find here. I hope you enjoy and thank you for engaging so far!
Books I have mentioned in this series:
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, Kellie Carter Jackson (I referenced the argument that is made in the first chapter, particularly around revolution)
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel Rolph Trouillot (I encourage everyone to read Chapter 3; I have linked the pdf here)
Surrealism and Us, Carribean and Afro-Diasporic Artists Since 1940
James, Percival Everett
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