Making of African America The Four Great Migrations

Name: Making of African America The Four Great Migrations
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ISBN: 9780143118794

ISBN-10: 014311879X

ISBN-13: 9780143118794

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ira Berlin

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An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's most distinguished historians, offers a revolutionary-and sure to be controversial-new view of African American history. In The Making of African America, Berlin challenges the traditional presentation of a linear, progressive history from slavery to freedom. Instead, he puts forth the idea that four great migrations, between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, lie at the heart of black American culture and its development. With an engrossing, accessible narrative, Berlin traces the transit from Africa to America, Virginia to…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.33" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594

Ira Berlin is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.



Prologue



Movement and Place in the African American Past



The Transatlantic Passage



The Passage to the Interior



The Passage to the North



Global Passages


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index