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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hornsby, Alton.

Series:

Blackwell companions to American history.

Blackwell companions to American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (580 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

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. Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field Includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history

Contents:

A COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: African and Other Roots; 1 Life and Work in West Africa; 2 Africans in Europe Prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade; 3 The African and European Slave Trades; 4 Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America: The Post-Emancipation Diaspora; Part II: Africans in Early North America; 5 Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race in Colonial America; 6 Not Chattel, Not Free: Quasi-Free Blacks in the Colonial Era; 7 Africans and Native Americans; Part III: In the House of Bondage

8 Origins and Institutionalization of American Slavery9 Labor in the Slave Community, 1700-1860; 10 Spirituality and Socialization in the Slave Community; 11 Slave Rebels and Black Abolitionists; Part IV: Transculturation; 12 The Americanization of Africans and the Africanization of America; 13 African Americans and an Atlantic World Culture; Part V: The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Quest for Freedom; 14 African Americans and the American Civil War; 15 Jim Crowed - Emancipation Betrayed: African Americans Confront the Veil

Part VI: The Maturation of African American Communities and the Emergence of Independent Institutions16 African American Religious and Fraternal Organizations; 17 The Quest for "Book Learning": African American Education in Slavery and Freedom; 18 The Growth of African American Cultural and Social Institutions; 19 African American Entrepreneurship in Slavery and Freedom; 20 The Black Press; Part VII: African Americans and Wars "For Democracy"; 21 The Black Soldier in Two World Wars; 22 Identity, Patriotism, and Protest on the Wartime Home Front, 1917-19, 1941-5; Part VIII: Gender and Class

23 Gender and Class in Post-Emancipation Black Communities24 African American Women since the Second World War: Perspectives on Gender and Race; 25 Striving for Place: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People; Part IX: Migration, Renaissance, and New Beginnings; 26 Exodus from the South; 27 Development, Growth, and Transformation in Higher Education; 28 Identity, Protest, and Outreach in the Arts; Part X: Searching for Place; 29 Searching for a New Freedom; 30 "Race Rebels": From Indigenous Insurgency to Hip-Hop Mania

31 Searching for Place:Nationalism, Separatism,and Pan-AfricanismIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610237159

9781280237157

1280237155

9781780342092

1780342098

9781405165877

1405165871

9780470996720

0470996722

9781405137355

1405137355

OCLC:

184983657