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Calvin Schermerhorn
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Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵
Out now, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World by @rickbell.bsky.social A wide angle view of a global event that never loses focus on the Revolution itself. Check it out!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752265...
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Revealing: the work of enslaved carpenters whose expertise is revealed 250+ years later at Mount Vernon during a renovation. I wrote about one of them, Morris, who worked on George Washington’s 1759 reno and managed Dogue Run farm for 20 years all while enslaved. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
April 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“A carefully researched work of history that chronicles centuries of injustice while calling for an end to inequality. A historical examination of the origins of the ever-deepening divide between Black and white intergenerational wealth”-Kirkus; in print &audiobook yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
February 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Plunder of Black America: How The Racial Wealth Gap Was Made “is essential reading for anyone concerned with the past, present, & future of wealth, poverty, and racial injustice.” -
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
(thank you Steven!) available now yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
February 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Honored to speak with Tavis Smiley today about The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made, new from @yalepress.bsky.social www.spreaker.com/episode/calv...
February 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Publication Day for The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made: “is essential reading for anyone concerned with the past, present, & future of wealth, poverty, & racial injustice.” #BlackHistoryMonth
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #racialwealthgap #blackhistory
February 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It’s publication day for The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made! Read the 400-year history of Black Americans’ striving against economic inequality that kept changing form. #publicationday #racialwealthgap #blackhistorymonth yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
February 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Plunder of Black America: How the #RacialWealthGap Was Made coming out on 2/11! It’s a story of seven families over 400 years and how dispossession led to disinheritance and decapitalization. Circumstances changed. Theft continues. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #BlackHistoryMonth
February 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The Plunder of Black America: How The Racial Wealth Gap Was Made “is essential reading for anyone conc with the past, present, & future of wealth, poverty, & racial injustice.” -
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
(thank you Steven!) available for preorder on Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/book/the-...
February 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Edited by the amazing @adinapopescu.com Please preorder: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
February 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Edited by the amazing @adinapopescu.com Please preorder now:
play.google.com/store/audiob...
February 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Dorothy A. Brown says The Plunder of Black America “sets out in clear and exquisite detail the huge obstacles placed in the path of African Americans who simply wanted to become self-sufficient & leave their children with brighter futures” lnkd.in/gXwhCUqs
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February 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made will be published by @yalepress.bsky.social on 2/11. It shows the profound continuities over 400 years as well as the historically specific conditions of each family’s story. Preorder on Google Play: play.google.com/store/audiob...
February 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It arrived! Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by @sethrockman.bsky.social tells a story of American capitalism through the materials that connected enslavers and “coerced consumers” to spinners weavers & owners in the North
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December 5, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Excited to end my grad course on race, rights & resources with Nitasha Tamar Sharma‘s brilliant Hawai’i is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (@dukepress.bsky.social) searching & vibrant ethnography of Blackness in Hawaiian contexts read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2... #skystorians
December 5, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Excited to teach @marthasjones.bsky.social’s Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, from Jarena Lee to Stacey Abrams. Now more than ever, an essential read and historical lesson
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/marth...
November 11, 2024 at 8:37 PM