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Ro Khanna, a congressman whose district includes Silicon Valley, sold
Dignity in a Digital Age to Simon & Schuster. The book, subtitled
Making Tech Work for All of
Us, was acquired by executive editor
Stephanie Frerich in a world rights agreement from
Jim Levine at the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. S&S said Khanna tackles “equal access to technology,” one of the pressing issues of our day, and makes the case for “democratizing digital innovation in order to build economically vibrant and inclusive communities.” Before being elected to Congress, Khanna served as deputy assistant secretary of commerce in the Obama administration.
Elda Rotor at Viking Books bought world rights, at auction, to
Seizing Black Space by
Deirdre Mullane at Mullane Literary Associates. Viking said the book, subtitled
A New History of Race and Mobility in America, “chronicles African American struggles to make claims on the American landscape from vibrant slave communities and early free urban enclaves to thriving Black Wall Streets and the ghost towns of communities razed by fear and violence across four centuries of displacement and renewal.” Commander is the associate director and curator of the Schomburg Center’s Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery in New York City.