Synopses & Reviews
Incorporating the basic features and narrative from The African-American Odyssey, this concise history presents its major episodes, issues, and people. It tells a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity–leaving readers with an appreciation of the central place of black people and culture in this country, and a better understanding of both African-American and American history. The 2nd edition presents a broadened international perspective, offers expanded coverage of interaction among African-Americans and other ethnic groups, and includes additional material on African-Americans in the western portion of the United States, as well as a new chapter on the evolution of black politics since the 1980s. It describes African-American history from the struggle of black people to maintain their humanity during the slave trade and as slaves in North America continuing through the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, and through the Civil Rights movement to discussions of black life at the dawn of the 21st century. This 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.
Synopsis
Incorporating the basic features and narrative from "The African-American Odyssey, " this concise history presents its major episodes, issues and people--and tells a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. The book starts out among the ancient civilizations of Africa, journeys to the American Revolution of the 1700s, travels through the nineteenth century to a portrayal of life in the twentieth, and considers the continuing impact of African Americans on life in the United States. Its broad coverage of essential topics includes black women, important political and religious leaders, churches, schools, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and entertainers. MARKET" For an appreciation of the central place of black people and culture in this country, and a better understanding of both African-American and American history.
Table of Contents
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(NOTE: Combined Volume contains 1-23 and Epilogue.)
I. BECOMING AFRICAN AMERICAN.
1. Africa.
2. Middle Passage.
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.
II. SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1793-1861.
6. Life in the CottonKingdom.
7. Free Black People in Antebellum America.
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.
III. THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION, AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
11. Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War.
12. The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868.
13. The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868-1877.
IV. SEARCHING FOR SAFE PLACES.
14. White Supremacy Triumphant: African-Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century.
15. Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy.
16. Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century.
17. African Americans and the 1920s.
V. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II.
18. The Great Depression and the New Deal.
19. Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s.
20. The World War Era and the Seeds of a Revolution.
VI. THE BLACK REVOLUTION.
21. The Freedom Movement, 1954-1965.
22. The Struggle Continues, 1965-1980.
23. Modern Black America, 1980-Present.
Epilogue: “A Nation within a Nation.”
Appendixes.
Additional Bibliography.
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