SOLVE FOR THE UNKNOWN
IDENTITY
Question the labels you inherited.
ANCESTRAL MEMORY
Follow the stories that survived.
RECLASSIFICATION
Examine how names changed on paper.
HIDDEN HISTORY
Look beneath the official record.
WHO WERE WE BEFORE THEY RENAMED US?
For generations, people called Black, Negro, Colored, and African American have been handed an identity shaped by textbooks, institutions, census records, museums, and silence. When one man searches forgotten records, old maps, family stories, ancient mounds, and buried histories, he discovers a possibility too powerful to ignore: the people he was told came from somewhere else may have been here all along. The Value of X is a bold work of historical fiction about identity, ancestry, archaeology, reclassification, and the question: Who were we before they renamed us?
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