Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

New York Times bestselling author Anna Malaika Tubbs's Erased is an expansive and story-driven rewrite of history, in the style of Caste and Stamped from the Beginning, with the influence of unsung women of color as the focal point for how our country was shaped.

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 such as Angela Davis and Gloria Anzaldúa, and her own personal experiences, Tubbs uses her latest text to rewrite American history from a new perspective: one where women of color are at the center.

About the Author

Anna Malika Tubbs is a New York Times Bestselling author, advocate, and educator. Her writing has been featured in Time, New York, CNN, the Guardian, and elsewhere. Her first book, titled The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, was a New York Times bestseller.