The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
by Ira Berlin
Description
Across four transformative migrations, this sweeping history traces how African American life was shaped by forced displacement, enslavement, the Great Migration, and the arrival of Black immigrants in the modern era. From the Middle Passage and the antebellum South to northern cities and global diasporas, it follows the movement of people, ideas, traditions, and cultures across continents and generations. The book explores how migration reshaped identity, community, politics, and cultural expression while revealing the resilience and creativity forged through upheaval. Richly informed by historical scholarship, it presents African American history as an ongoing process of reinvention shaped by both rootedness and movement.
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paperback
Viking
Published Jan 1, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 9780670021376
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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