God and Blackness Antonia Zachariou Award-winning author Jane Yolen joins

Award-winning author Jane Yolen joins forces with debut author Ariel Stemple in this picture book about reclaiming strength

enhanced with gorgeous life restorations by Carl Buell

in which ancient and modern history

making complex material easy to comprehend and implement

but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece

God and Blackness Antonia Zachariou Award-winning author Jane Yolen joinsBlackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth.