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...