While first reading Ibram X. Kendi’s kaleidoscopic and admirably lucid Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas, I had a flashback to my days as a graduate ...
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and an Associate Dean in the Graduate School at Michigan State University. His most recent book is What Is African American History? (2015). He is currently completing a book entitled “Revisiting the Black Past: Contemporary Uses of African American History in Politics and Popular Culture” (forthcoming from Verso Books). 