Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Description
Surveying African-American history from precolonial Africa and the era of enslavement to the civil rights movement and contemporary hip-hop culture, this richly illustrated work traces the forces that shaped Black life in the United States. It examines slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power, and the continuing struggle for equality, while highlighting the resilience, creativity, and institution-building that sustained African-American communities. More than 150 works by Black artists deepen the narrative, serving as powerful expressions of memory, identity, resistance, and cultural achievement. The result is a vivid, wide-ranging history that acknowledges both extraordinary progress and the persistent inequalities facing African Americans today.
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paperback
Oxford Univerity Press, USA
Published Jan 1, 2005
502 pages
ISBN: 9780195137569
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First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter.