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The Geography of Us : From Ouidah to Harlem-Journeys to Reclaim Black Identity

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The Geography of Us is a lyrical, scholarly journey through seven stations of the Black Atlantic-Ouidah, Cape Coast, New Orleans, Harlem, Detroit, Kingston, and Brixton-where identity is not a slogan but a practice. Blending archival rigor with lived witness, this book teaches a "double literacy" read the record, read the ritual. In back rooms where archives file evidence and on streets where communities file witness, the through-line holds: salt keeps the body honest; truth keeps memory from spoiling.

Each chapter follows a memorable cadence-A Table Is Set → The Street Teaches → Archive in a Back Room → Night Walk → Morning After-so readers experience history as a room they can enter, not just a page to turn. Doors refuse to stay nouns, windows become instruments, and rivers revise their banks until the bank agrees to be edited.

With a Foreword by educator Dr. Charna Matthews-Jackson and a Preface by Pan-African historian Jarrett J. Jackson, The Geography of Us is built for classrooms, book clubs, and solitary night reading alike. It offers discussion guides, a field-tested appendix for family archives, and a method for naming ourselves with accuracy and care.

If you're drawn to books that sing while they argue-poetry doing analytic work, history with its sleeves rolled-this is your next companion. Read with your ear; bring a margin. The book will do the rest.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798267167475
  • ISBN-10: 9798267167475
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: October 2025
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.19 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
  • Page Count: 94

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