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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817296703321

Titolo

To make our world anew : a history of African Americans / / edited by Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

0-19-993809-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (697 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KelleyRobin D. G

LewisEarl

Disciplina

973/.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The First Passage: 1502-1619; CHAPTER 2 Strange New Land: 1619-1776; CHAPTER 3 Revolutionary Citizens: 1776-1804; CHAPTER 4 Let My People Go: 1804-1860; CHAPTER 5 Breaking the Chains: 1860-1880; CHAPTER 6 Though Justice Sleeps: 1880-1900; ART ESSAY: What is Africa to Me?; CHAPTER 7 A Chance to Make Good: 1900-1929; CHAPTER 8 From a Raw Deal to a New Deal?: 1929-1945; CHAPTER 9 We Changed the World: 1945-1970; CHAPTER 10 Into the Fire: 1970 to the Present; Chronology; Further Reading; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R

ST; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans experienced it. We begin in Africa, with the growth of the slave trade, and follow the forced migration of what is estimated to be