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Upon These Shores Themes in the African-American Experience 1600 to the Present

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ISBN-10: 0415924073

ISBN-13: 9780415924078

Edition: 2000

Authors: William G. Shade, William R. Scott

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Providing an overview of African American history, this text discusses a range of topics such as the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature.
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Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Foreword
Chronology of African-American History
Introduction: The Long Rugged Road
Out of africa
Africa, the Slave Trade, and the Diaspora
This "peculiar institution"
Creating a Biracial Society, 1619-1720
Africans in Eighteenth-Century North America
In Search of Freedom: Slave Life in the Antebellum South
"Though We Are Not Slaves, We Are Not Free": Quasi-Free Blacks in Antebellum America
The reconstruction and beyond
Full of Faith, Full of Hope: The African-American Experience from Emancipation to Segregation
Blacks in the Economy: from Reconstruction to World War I
In Search of the Promised Land: Black Migration and Urbanization, 1900-1940
From Booker T. to Malcolm X: Black Political Thought, 1895-1965
Rights, Power, and Equality: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
African-american identity and culture
The Sounds of Blackness: African-American Music
Black Voices: Themes in African-American Literature
Black Religious Traditions: Sacred and Secular Themes
Family, class, and gender
African-American Family Life in Societal Context: Crisis and Hope
From Black Bourgeoisie to African-American Middle Class, 1957 to the Present
The New Underclass: Concentrated Black Poverty in the Postindustrial City
Black Feminism in the United States
The postwar agenda
African Americans and Education since the Brown Decisions: A Contextual View
After the Movement: African Americans and Civil Rights since 1970
The Quest for Black Equity: African-American Politics since the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Black Internationalism: African Americans and Foreign Policy Activism
Afterword: The Future of African Americans
Notes on Contributors