10 Books Similar to “The Past and the Present: Memory, Identity, and Politics” by Annette W. Adams

The Past and the Present: Memory, Identity, and Politics

by Annette W. Adams (2012)

In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.