A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.
Like its author, this book is profound, subtle, hilarious, and deadly serious."---Kofi Natambu, author of The Melody Never Stops, What is an Aesthetic?
As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.