Newly Published, From Susan Sontag to the Black Working Class
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 25, 2023
AMERICAN WHITELASH: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, by Wesley Lowery. (Mariner, $29.99.) Beginning with the backlash to the 2008 election of Barack Obama, Lowery examines how American society has fissured in the past 15 years, profiling the victims of white supremacy and the institutions that support it.
CALIFORNIA, A SLAVE STATE, by Jean Pfaelzer. (Yale, $35.) A historian explains how California “welcomed, honed and legalized” human bondage for 250 years, from the legalized . . .
