African American history : a very short introduction / Jonathan Scott Holloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Jonathan Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Other Title:

African American History

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press

Summary:

"What does it mean to be an American? African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This Very Short Introduction narrates the creation of racialized chattel slavery, the dismantling of that system during the Civil War, and the civil rights disputes that have erupted in the years since Emancipation, including the Black Lives Matter movement. Author Jonathan Scott Holloway illustrates American citizens' willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equal"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America

Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War

War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered

Civilization, race, and the politics of uplift

The making of the modern Civil Rights Movement(s)

The paradoxes of post-civil rights America

Stony the road we trod.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-091517-X

0-19-091518-8