Daina Ramey Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, winner of the 2017 SHEAR Book Award for Early American History, and co-author, with Kali Nicole Gross, of A Black Women’s History of the United States, a 2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Nonfiction. Connect with her at drdainarameyberry.com or @DainaRameyBerry on Twitter.
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