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When the Story Turned on Itself

When the Story Turned on Itself

Por Prescott, Wesley

Publicado por epubli

English 2026
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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—while asking who is allowed to tell those stories and who is reduced to their suffering. The narrative centers on three interwoven processes: how irony and satire became tools for African Americans to expose the absurdity of "freedom" within racial capitalism, how official histories and public memory often sanitize or erase Black agency and resistance, and how confronting unflinching truths—about violence, law, and economic exclusion—challenges the myth of steady national progress. Drawing on Black‑led scholarship, oral histories, and cultural production, the book shows how Black thinkers and artists have turned irony into a method of critique, recasting familiar milestones as moments of both triumph and tactical retreat.

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When the Story Turned on Itself está disponível como eBook em 6 livrarias online. Entre as livrarias que o vendem estão Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Crisol Ebooks.

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