To Make Our World Anew: Volume II Paperback / softback
by Robin D. G. (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University) Kelley, Earl (Executive Vice President and Provost, Executive Vice President and Provost, Emory Unive Lewis
Part of the To Make Our World Anew series
Paperback / softback
Description
The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians.
This second volume covers the crucial post-Reconstruction years and traces the migration of blacks to the major cities.
It describes the remarkablebirth of the Harlem Renaissance, the hardships of the Great Depression, and the service of African Americans in World War II.
Readers witness the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and '60s and finally,the emergence of today's black middle class.
Here is a panoramic view of African-American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans have experienced it.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 47 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:21/04/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195181357
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 47 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:21/04/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195181357
