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"Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us" with Anna Malaika Tubbs and Reshma Saujani.
Tue, Jun 24
|Cafe con Libros, Bk.
Join us to celebrate this critical and timely body of work! NYT bestselling author Anna Malaika Tubbs's Erased is an expansive and story-driven rewrite of history, in the style of Caste, with the influence of unsung women of color as the focal point for how our country was shaped.
Time & Location
Jun 24, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Cafe con Libros, Bk., 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216
About the Event
About the Book: In 2021, Anna Malaika Tubbs published her debut book, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. During her book tour, many readers asked Tubbs the same question: How was it that the incredible stories of these three mothers got erased from the annals of American history? This question prompted Tubbs to write her next book.
In Erased, Tubbs grapples with this conundrum: in many ways, women and people of color built the United States. And so why is it that their stories are so rarely commemorated or remembered? The answer is, in some ways, simple: racism and patriarchy have colluded to ensure white men are the ones recounting history. But through her research, Tubbs uncovered much more.
Building off contemporary historical research from books like How We Get Free and Caste, seminal civil rights thinkers…
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