When the Story Turned on Itself

This book re reads Black American history through a mix of irony, critique, and unflinching honesty, treating the past not as a tidy redemptive arc but as a chain of contradictions that still shape the present. It traces how slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the post civil rights era were all narrated in competing ways-sometimes as heroic rises, sometimes as repeated betrayals-w...