The People Remember
Ibi Zoboi
This history follows African Americans from the capture and enslavement of the first Africans through the present day. Its poetic text includes the Great Migration and the shift from sharecropping to factory work. The account is organized through the seven principles of Kwanzaa: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. It presents Black history through these principles while tracing collective memory, labor, movement, and community.
This book appears on 4 reading lists across 2 editions from 4 organizations.
