Book #342 of 2021: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens An incredibly heavy yet informative read on how the modern field of gynecology was created in the age of American slavery, with enslaved black women its unwilling participants. They were involved as patients for experimental techniques, of …
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Book Review: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Book #172 of 2021: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain This is a remarkable and remarkably ambitious project, bringing together eighty prominent African American writers, from Angela Davis to Jamelle Bouie to Isabel Wilkerson, in order to pen a sweeping account of …
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