For one-semester courses in African-American History. Incorporating the basic features and narrative from The African-American Odyssey, this concise history presents its major episodes, issues and people. Ideally suited for one-semester courses or for instructors who want a brief core text, it tells a compelling story of survival, struggle, and ...
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United StatesHistory. More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in American history with clear, direct writing by leading scholars and an in-depth exploration of African-American ...
More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey 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. This updated edition brings the ...
"A Shining Thread of Hope" moves black women from the fringes of history, disclosing their impact on American life from colonial America to the years of antebellum slavery to the arts renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s.
More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey 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. Th This updated edition brings ...
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History. Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the ...
'The history of African American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country in the last fifteen years; and Darlene Clark Hine has been one of those most responsible for bringing the subject to its current level of importance' - from the Foreword by John Hope Franklin. 'In this absolutely needed collection of ...
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United StatesHistory. More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in American history with clear, direct writing by leading scholars and an in-depth exploration of African-American ...
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History. Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the ...
"...a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." - Drew Faust. Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did ...
'With 604 full-scale biographical entries (and more than 450 photographs), the engagingly written 2,267-page work promises to become an invaluable school and library tool.' --People
More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey 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, ...
Winner of the Dartmouth Medal for Outstanding Reference Publication of 1994, the first edition of Black Women in America broke ground--pulling together for the first time all of the research in this vast but underrepresented field to provide one of the strongest building blocks of Black Women's Studies. Hailed by Eric Foner of Columbia University ...
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History. Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the ...
The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomble nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. ...
This collection of over 300 historical photographs of ordinary African American women is intended as a true representation of Black history and to counter long-prevailing images and stereotypes. Individually, the photographs show people in everyday situations--providing, like all good photographs, insight into the character of the subjects and ...
"A Question of Manhood" is the first anthology of historical studies focused on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities. The editors identified these essays from among several hundred articles published in recent years in leading American history journals and academic periodicals. Each piece illuminates an important ...
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History. The Media and Research update edition includes a new CD-ROM-bound into every book-- that includes over 150 primary source documents in African American history each accompanied by essay questions. In addition, the CD ROM ...
African Americans: A Concise History is designed for one-semester survey courses of African-American history or for instructors who would like a concise narrative that can be supplemented with outside readings. African Americans draws on recent research to present black history in a clear and direct manner and within the broader social, cultural, ...
This volume, part of the "Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America" set, presents the history of black women and related organizations in the areas of midwifery, nursing, medicine and science. The book features an alphabetical listing of more than 70 entries.
For courses in African-American History. Incorporating the basic features and narrative from The African-American Odyssey, this concise history presents its major episodes, issues and people. Ideally suited for one-semester courses or for instructors who want a brief core text, it tells a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over ...
For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in History of African-Americans and History of Ethnic Americans. This clearly written, comprehensive textbook explores the African-American experience in the United States from its African origins to the present. It highlights the pivotal role African Americans have played in the nation's history, ...
The State of Afro-American History is an authoritative and provocative examination of the Afro-American experience during slavery and since emancipation. Individual essays by prominent scholars cover the ways in which black slaves shaped their environment, the forces that influenced the black urban experience in the United States, the evolution of ...
Coming as closely on the heels of the Revolutionary War as it did, the French Revolution had a profound impact upon America. France's abolition of racial discrimination in 1792, and then slavery two years later, are two aspects of the burgeoning French democracy that, the author argues, America later emulated. "A Turbulent Time" tracks ...
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