Major aspects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from an African perspective have gotten erased throughout time. Howard French set out to illuminate a more expansive understanding in a new book called, “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War.”
Biology determines our racial phenotype: black, white, Asian, Indian, etc., but the complex history of race relations in the United States has also created a set of stereotypes about race based on how we act. Our favorite music, the neighborhood in which we live, our religious affiliation, and even our names – we tend to […]