Archive for the 'Annette Gordon-Reed' Category

Along with the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize:
“Historian and author Annette Gordon-Reed has won a literary Triple Crown with her remarkable “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” her 798-page exploration of Thomas Jefferson and the family of slaves with whom he became intimately involved. The book has won the National Book Award, [...]

What is on an African Diaspora, Ph.D. reading  list this summer?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Black Behind the Ears:  Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
José C. Curto and Renée [...]