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Subject(s)

• African Americans—History [Browse]
• African Americans—Historiography [Browse]

Related name

• Hornsby, Alton [Browse]

Series

Blackwell companions to American history. [More in this series]

Summary note

A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day. Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field Includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• A COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: African and Other Roots; 1 Life and Work in West Africa; 2 Africans in Europe Prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade; 3 The African and European Slave Trades; 4 Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America: The Post-Emancipation Diaspora; Part II: Africans in Early North America; 5 Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race in Colonial America; 6 Not Chattel, Not Free: Quasi-Free Blacks in the Colonial Era; 7 Africans and Native Americans; Part III: In the House of Bondage
• 8 Origins and Institutionalization of American Slavery9 Labor in the Slave Community, 1700-1860; 10 Spirituality and Socialization in the Slave Community; 11 Slave Rebels and Black Abolitionists; Part IV: Transculturation; 12 The Americanization of Africans and the Africanization of America; 13 African Americans and an Atlantic World Culture; Part V: The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Quest for Freedom; 14 African Americans and the American Civil War; 15 Jim Crowed - Emancipation Betrayed: African Americans Confront the Veil
• Part VI: The Maturation of African American Communities and the Emergence of Independent Institutions16 African American Religious and Fraternal Organizations; 17 The Quest for "Book Learning": African American Education in Slavery and Freedom; 18 The Growth of African American Cultural and Social Institutions; 19 African American Entrepreneurship in Slavery and Freedom; 20 The Black Press; Part VII: African Americans and Wars "For Democracy"; 21 The Black Soldier in Two World Wars; 22 Identity, Patriotism, and Protest on the Wartime Home Front, 1917-19, 1941-5; Part VIII: Gender and Class
• 23 Gender and Class in Post-Emancipation Black Communities24 African American Women since the Second World War: Perspectives on Gender and Race; 25 Striving for Place: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People; Part IX: Migration, Renaissance, and New Beginnings; 26 Exodus from the South; 27 Development, Growth, and Transformation in Higher Education; 28 Identity, Protest, and Outreach in the Arts; Part X: Searching for Place; 29 Searching for a New Freedom; 30 "Race Rebels": From Indigenous Insurgency to Hip-Hop Mania
• 31 Searching for Place:Nationalism, Separatism,and Pan-AfricanismIndex

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ISBN

• 1-280-23715-5
• 1-78034-209-8
• 9786610237159
• 1-4051-6587-1
• 0-470-99672-2
• 1-4051-3735-5

OCLC

62266009

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