African American lives / / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2004; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (4606 p.)
• Disciplina: 920/.009296073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans
• Persona (resp. second.): GatesHenry Louis, Jr.; HigginbothamEvelyn Brooks <1945->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Introduction""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Directory of Contributors""; ""Subjects in African American Lives""; ""African American Lives""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H-I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P-Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X-Y""; ""Subjects by Category or Area of Renown""; ""African American Prizewinners, Medalists, Members of Congress, and Judges""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed fr
• Titolo autorizzato: African American lives
• ISBN: 1-280-83827-2; 0-19-977101-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812885703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II