America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
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Publishing Details
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
By (Author) Ariel Aberg-Riger
Illustrated by Ariel Aberg-Riger
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
30th August 2023
United States
Classifications
Young Adult
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Childrens / Teenage: Personal and social topics
973
Physical Properties
Hardback
304
Width 174mm, Height 236mm, Spine 23mm
853g
Description
A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Redux is a necessary and galvanizing read.
What are the stories we tell ourselves about America
How do they shape our sense of history,
cloud our perceptions,
inspire us
America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths weve been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very dayfrom the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of white women on education to the effects of progress on housing and the environment, to the inspiring force of collective action and mutual aid across decades and among diverse groups.
Fully illustrated with collaged archival photographs, maps, documents, graphic elements, and handwritten text, this book is a dazzling, immersive experience that jumps around in time and will make you view history in a whole different light.
Reviews
"America Redux is THE history book that belongs in every high school in America. Aberg-Riger has provided a necessary and insightful conversation about history that highlights the history makers we know so little about. America can't know where it's going unless it knows where it's been, and America Redux is the ultimate guide for that." -- Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give
"America Redux is RAD. Incredible to look at and fascinating to read. It's also badass, brilliant, fun, super clever, and utterly unflinching when it comes to telling the real and often brutal histories of these United States." -- Kate Schatz, New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z and Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book
