The history of the USA told from European-American and African-American perspectives

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Further reading:

UK

Eric Williams, Capitalism And slavery (1944)

David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History Paperback (2017)

Miranda Kauffman, Black Tudors (2017)

Afua Hirsch Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (2018)

 

USA

Vincent Harding, There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America (1993)

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)

Henry Louis Gates Jr, Stony the Road (2019)

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020)

Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2021)

 

If there are other book recommendations you would like to suggest, please email suggestions to sarah@parallelhistories.org.uk