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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.