Synopses & Reviews
More than any other text, African-Americans: A Concise History illuminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history — not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-American history is inseparably weaved into the greater context of American history and vice versa.
Told through a clear, direct, and flowing narrative by leading scholars in the field, African-Americans: A Concise History draws on recent research to present black history within broad social, cultural, and political frameworks. From Africa to the twenty-first century, this book follows the long turbulent journey, the rich culture that African Americans have nurtured throughout their history, and the quest for freedom through which African Americans have sought to counter oppression and racism. This text also recognizes the diversity within the African-American sphere—providing coverage of class and gender and balancing the lives of ordinary men and women with the accounts and actions of black leaders and individuals.
Synopsis
African-Americans: A Concise History is a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. Readers will learn an appreciation of the central place of black people and black culture in this country, and a better understanding of both African-American and American history. Slavery; Abolition; The Civil War; Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction; The Freedom Movement; Civil Rights; Obama. For anyone interested in understanding African-American history.
About the Author
Darlene Clark Hine
Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past President of the Organization of American Historians and of the Southern Historical Association. Hine received her BA at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and her MA and Ph.D. from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Hine has taught at South Carolina State University and at Purdue University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She is the author and/or co-editor of fifteen books, most recently The Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) coedited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack.
William C. Hine
William C. Hine received his undergraduate education at Bowling Green State University, his master’s degree at the University of Wyoming, and his Ph.D. at Kent State University. He is a professor of history at South Carolina State University. He has had articles published in several journals, including Agricultural History, Labor History, and the Journal of Southern History. He is currently writing a history of South Carolina State University.
Stanley Harrold
Stanley Harrold, Professor of History at South Carolina State University, received his bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Kent State University. He is coeditor of Southern Dissent, a book series published by the University Press of Florida. He received during the 1990s two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships to pursue research dealing with the antislavery movement. In 2005 he received a Faculty Research Award from the NEH in support of his current research on physical conflict along America’s North-South sectional border from the 1780s to the Civil War. He is the author of seven books, most recently Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2007). He has published articles in Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, and Journal of the Early Republic.
Table of Contents
PART I Becoming African American
1 Africa, ca. 6000 c.e-ca. 1600 c.e.
2 Middle Passage, ca. 1450-1809
3 Black People in Colonial North America, 1526—1763
4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763—1783
5 African Americans in the New Nation, 1783—1820
PART II Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War
6 Life in the Cotton Kingdom, 1703-1861
7 Free Black People in Antebellum America, 1820-1861
8 Opposition to Slavery, 1800—1833
9 Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833—1850
10 “And Black People Were at the Heart of It”: The United States Disunites over Slavery, 1846-1861
PART III The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction:
The Second American Revolution
11 Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War, 1861-1865
12 The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865—1868
13 The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868-1877
PART IV Searching for Safe Spaces
14 White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1875-1900
15 Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy, 1867-1917
16 Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, 1895-1928
17 African Americans and the 1920s, 1915-1928
PART V The Great Depression and World War II
18 The Great Depression and The New Deal, 1929-1941
19 Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s, 1930-1949
20 The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution, 1936-1948
PART VI The Black Revolution
21 The Freedom Movement, 1954–1965
22 The Struggle Continues, 1965–1980
23 Black Politics, White Backlash, 1980 to Present
24 African Americans at the Dawn of a New Millenium
Epilogue: “A Nation Within a Nation”
Appendixes.
Additional Bibliography.
Index.