Description:
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of 40 acres and a mule--the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.
Brief description: Alaina E. Roberts teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh.
Review Quotes: "Exploring race and the making and remaking of Indian Territory and later Oklahoma, [I've Been Here All the While] broadens and complicates how we think about claims to land, community formation, and race in the West, making it a well-timed and welcome read [that is] hard to put down."-- "The Journal of African American Studies"