Black Heritage: Africans and Their Descendants in Historical Memory of the USA

Black Heritage: Africans and Their Descendants in Historical Memory of the USA
Edited by Dmitri M. Bondarenko
M.: IAS RAS, 2024. – 256 p.
ISBN 978-5-91298-301-6

Black heritage is a notion actively propagated by both the state and public organizations in the United States of America in recent decades. It presupposes recognition of a fundamental contribution of natives of Africa and their descendants to the history of the country, its economy and culture. This volume is devoted to identifying factors that were and are crucial for the formation and transformation of the Black and White Americans’ historical memory of the role of Africans and their descendants in US history. The contributors to the volume study the connection of historical memory with representations of Black heritage in the state and public discourses of the United States in the context of the aggravation of the racial problem and the emergence of new radical forms of combatting white racism in the country in the mid-2010s – early 2020s.