What Is African American History?

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6081-3
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

Reihe: What is History series

Scholarship on African American history has changed dramatically since the publication of George Washington Williams’ pioneering A History of the Negro Race in America in 1882. Organized chronologically and thematically, What is African American History? offers a concise and compelling introduction to the field of African American history as well as the black historical enterpriseÑpast, present, and future. Pero Gaglo Dagbovie discusses many of the discipline’s important turning points, subspecialties, defining characteristics, debates, texts, and scholars. The author explores the growth and maturation of scholarship on African American history from late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until the field achieved significant recognition from the ‘mainstream’ U.S. historical profession in the 1970s. Subsequent decades witnessed the emergence and development of key theoretical approaches, controversies, and dynamic areas of concentration in black history, the vibrant field of black women’s history, the intriguing relationship between African American history and Black Studies, and the imaginable future directions of African American history in the twenty-first century.

What is African American History? will be a practical introduction for all students of African American history and Black Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 What is a Social Movement? 1

2 The Study of Social Movements 26

3 What is a Political Movement? 49

4 What is a Cultural Movement? 72

5 What Do Social Movements Do? 94

6 Researching Social Movements 118

7 Where are Social Movements Headed? 139

References 161

Index 180

Über Autor(innen)

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie is Professor of History at Michigan State University.