Status Updates From Black Odyssey: The African-...

Through the introduction, and the main takeaway so far is the notion that America's identity is 100% wrapped up in the idea of freedom and to fully acknowledge slavery would force us to accept that our national identity is a lie. That is why many push the history of slavery to the side--to protect that assumed history.

I genuinely can't remember what prompted me to buy this book. I don't remember where I bought it. All I know is that it's been sitting on my TBR shelf for a while and that it appears to have made its way to me via a library in New York. It's a revised edition, but even the revision is over thirty years old. I guess I'm curious to see if attitudes or points of view on race and slavery have changed in that time.

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