Upon these shores : themes in the African-American experience, 1600 to the present
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Upon these shores : themes in the African-American experience, 1600 to the present
Routledge, 2000
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ISBN 9780415924061
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This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, these papers discuss a wide range of topics - from the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature, education and politics.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415924078
Description
This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, these papers discuss a wide range of topics - from the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature, education and politics.
Table of Contents
Foreword
William H. Gray, III
Introduction: The Long Rugged Road
William R. Scott and William G. Shade
Part I: Out of Africa
1. Africa, The Slave Trade and the Diaspora
Joseph C. Miller
Part II. The Peculiar Institution
2. Creating a Biracial Society, 1619-1720
Jean R. Soderlund
3. Africans in Eighteenth-Century North America
Peter H. Wood
4. In Search of Freedom: Slave Life in the Antebellum South
Norrece T. Jones
5. Though We Are Not Slaves, We Are Not Free: Blacks in Antebellum America
William G. Shade
Part III. The Reconstruction and Beyond
6. Full of Faith, Full of Hope: The African-American Experience From Emancipation to Segregation
Armstead Robinson
7. Blacks in the Economy From Reconstruction to World War I
Gerald D. Jaynes
8. In Search of the Promised Land: Black Migration and Urbanization, 1900-1940
Carole C. Marks
9. From Booker T. to Malcolm X: Black Political Thought, 1895-1965
Wilson J. Moses
10. Rights, Power and Equality: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
Edward P. Morgan
Part IV. African American Identity and Culture
11. The Sounds of Blackness: African American Music
Waldo F. Martin
12. Black Voices: Themes in African American Literature
Gerald Early
13. Black Religious Traditions: Sacred and Secular Themes
Gayraud S. Wilmore
Part V. Family, Class and Gender
14. African-American Family Life in Societal Context: Crisis and Hope
Walter R. Allen
15. From Black Bourgeoisie to African American Middle Class, 1957 to the Present
Robert Gregg
16. The New Underclass: Concentrated Poverty in the Post-Industrial City
John F. Bauman
17. Black Feminism in the United States
Beverly Guy-Sheftal
Part VI. The Post-War Agenda
18. African-Americans and Education Since the Brown Decisions: A Contextual View
Stephen N. Butler
19. After the Movement: African-Americans and Civil Rights Since 1970
Donald G. Neiman
20. The Quest for Black Equity: African-American Politics Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lawrence J. Hanks
21. Black Internationalism: African-Americans and Foreign Policy Activism
William R. Scott
Afterword: The Future of African Americans
Charles V. Hamilton
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