Claire Parfait, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (ed.), Writing History from the Margins: African Americans and the Quest for Freedom

This 174-page book is a collection of nine essays by French and Anglophone scholars specializing in African American history and culture. It covers United States history from the late eighteenth century to the present, with a focus on African Americans as subjects of, and contributors to, historical analysis. The volume serves several purposes as stated in the introduction: first, to provide visibility to the role of African Americans in national history and its writing; second, to present Af...