White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall

White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

Tyler Stovall

336 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principl...

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