Fugitive Archives is a deeply moving and powerful account of America’s tortured landscape of race and class, all too often hidden behind the facade of a devotion to liberty and equality. Fugitive Archives reveals that we are not a country of strangers split into “us” and “them,” who merely need to get to know each other in order to empathize. We have always been deeply entangled. This story of one family’s grief, betrayal, and courage is a vital exploration of race and class, a map for survival and resistance, and a necessary reckoning—for only when we acknowledge the complex, messy truth of who we are as a country, can we shape a more just future.

About the author:

Asale Angel-Ajani is the Author of A Country you Can Leave and Strange Trade. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN and other outlets. A recipient of major grants, she was a Hutchins Fellow at Harvard and holds a PhD from Stanford University.