A companion to African American history / edited by Alton Hornsby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hornsby, Alton.

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Series:

Blackwell companions to American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 564 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day. From their origins in West Africa on the eve of slave trading, through slavery itself and its abolition in the turmoil of the Civil War, and then over the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they struggled for freedom, identity, and place, African Americans occupy a central role in their country's history. This volume surveys the scholarly literature in African American history and provides a guide to the research, analyses, and various interpretations and perspectives that historians have developed over the past fifty years.

Each essay pays particular attention to geographical features as well as conceptual and methodological issues. In this volume, globalization, region, migration, gender, class, and social forces have been knitted into the broad cultural fabric of African American history. With this Companion, readers now have a complete source to the most recent theories and explanations for the changing contours of African American life.

Contents:

Life and work in West Africa / Augustine Konneh

Africans in Europe prior to the Atlantic slave trade / Maghan Keita

The African and European slave trades / Walter C. Rucker

Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America : the post-emancipation diaspora / Frederick D. Opie

Ethnicity, nationality, and race in colonial America / Jeffrey Elton Anderson

Not chattel, not free : quasi-free blacks in the colonial era / Antonio F. Holland and Debra Foster Greene

Africans and Native Americans / Tiya Miles and Barbara Krauthamer

Origins and institutionalization of American slavery / Jason R. Young

Labor in the slave community, 1700-1860 / Frederick C. Knight

Spirituality and socialization in the slave community / Jason R. Young

Slave rebels and black abolitionists / Stanley Harrold

The Americanization of Africans and the Africanization of America / Samuel T. Livingston

African Americans and an Atlantic world culture / Walter C. Rucker

African Americans and the American Civil War / Oscar R. Williams III and Haward "Woody" Farrar

Jim crowed

emancipation betrayed : African Americans confront the veil / Charles W. Mckinney, Jr and Rhonda Jones

African American religious and fraternal organizations / David H. Jackson, Jr

The quest for "book learning" : African American education in slavery and freedom / Christopher M. Span and James D. Anderson

The growth of African American cultural and social institutions / David H. Jackson, Jr

African American entrepreneurship in slavery and freedom / Anne R. Hornsby

The black press / Shirley E. Thompson

The black soldier in two world wars / Hayward "Woody" Farrar

Identity, patriotism, and protest on the wartime home front, 1917-19, 1941-5 / Hayward "Woody" Farrar

Gender and class in post-emancipation black communities / Angela M. Hornsby

African American women since the second world war : perspectives on gender and race / Delores P. Aldridge

Striving for place : lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people / Juan J. Battle and Natalie D.A. Bennett

Exodus from the south / Mark Andrew Huddle

Development, growth, and transformation in higher education / Abel A. Barley

Identity, protest, and outreach in the arts / Julius E. Thompson

Searching for a new freedom / Hasan Kwame Jeffries

"Race rebels" : from indigenous insurgency to hip-hop mania / Marcellus C. Barksdale and Samuel T. Livingston

Searching for place : nationalism, separatism, and pan-Africanism / Akinyele Umoja.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780470996720

0470996722

Publisher Number:

99976463067

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.