Upon these Shores

Themes in the African-American Experience 1600 to the Present
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-92407-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, these papers discuss a wide range of topics - from the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature, education and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, William R.

Shade, William G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
William H. Gray, III

Introduction: The Long Rugged Road
William R. Scott and William G. Shade

Part I: Out of Africa

1. Africa, The Slave Trade and the Diaspora
Joseph C. Miller

Part II. The Peculiar Institution

2. Creating a Biracial Society, 1619-1720
Jean R. Soderlund
3. Africans in Eighteenth-Century North America
Peter H. Wood
4. In Search of Freedom: Slave Life in the Antebellum South
Norrece T. Jones
5. Though We Are Not Slaves, We Are Not Free: Blacks in Antebellum America
William G. Shade

Part III. The Reconstruction and Beyond

6. Full of Faith, Full of Hope: The African-American Experience From Emancipation to Segregation
Armstead Robinson
7. Blacks in the Economy From Reconstruction to World War I

Gerald D. Jaynes
8. In Search of the Promised Land: Black Migration and Urbanization, 1900-1940
Carole C. Marks
9. From Booker T. to Malcolm X: Black Political Thought, 1895-1965
Wilson J. Moses
10. Rights, Power and Equality: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
Edward P. Morgan

Part IV. African American Identity and Culture

11. The Sounds of Blackness: African American Music
Waldo F. Martin
12. Black Voices: Themes in African American Literature
Gerald Early
13. Black Religious Traditions: Sacred and Secular Themes
Gayraud S. Wilmore

Part V. Family, Class and Gender

14. African-American Family Life in Societal Context: Crisis and Hope
Walter R. Allen
15. From Black Bourgeoisie to African American Middle Class, 1957 to the Present

Robert Gregg
16. The New Underclass: Concentrated Poverty in the Post-Industrial City
John F. Bauman
17. Black Feminism in the United States
Beverly Guy-Sheftal

Part VI. The Post-War Agenda

18. African-Americans and Education Since the Brown Decisions: A Contextual View

Stephen N. Butler
19. After the Movement: African-Americans and Civil Rights Since 1970
Donald G. Neiman
20. The Quest for Black Equity: African-American Politics Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lawrence J. Hanks
21. Black Internationalism: African-Americans and Foreign Policy Activism

William R. Scott

Afterword: The Future of African Americans
Charles V. Hamilton

Über Autor(innen)

William R. Scott is Professor of History and Director of the African-American Studies Program at Lehigh University. He is author of The Sons of Sheba's Race: African Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian War (1993). William G. Shade is Director of the American Studies Program at Lehigh University and Co-Director of the Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is author of Democratizing the Old Dominion (1996) and co-editor, with Sandy Maisel, of Parties and Politics in American History (1994).