African-American Odyssey, The: Combined Volume
ISBN: 9780136150121 | 0136150128
Edition: 4thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history - not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-American history is inseparably weaved into the greater context of American history and vice versa.Told through a clear, direct, and flowing narrative by leading scholars in the field, The African-American Odyssey draws on recent research to present black history within broad social, cultural, and political frameworks. From Africa ... MORE
| Becoming African American | p. 1 |
| Africa | p. 2 |
| Middle Passage | p. 24 |
| Black People in Colonial North America, 1526 1763 | p. 46 |
| Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763 1783 | p. 72 |
| African Americans in the New Nation, 1783 1820 | p. 94 |
| Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793 1861 | p. 120 |
| Life... MORE | p. 122 |
| Free Black People in Antebellum America | p. 146 |
| Opposition to Slavery, 1800 1833 | p. 170 |
| Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833 1850 | p. 188 |
| "And Black People Were at the Heart of It": The United States Disunites over Slavery | p. 204 |
| The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution | p. 230 |
| Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War | p. 232 |
| The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865 1868 | p. 258 |
| The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, | p. 284 |
| Searching for Safe Spaces | p. 306 |
| White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century | p. 308 |
| Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy | p. 334 |
| Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century | p. 364 |
| African Americans and the 1920s | p. 400 |
| The Great Depression and World War II | p. 426 |
| The Great Depression and The New Deal | p. 428 |
| Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s | p. 454 |
| The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution | p. 480 |
| The Black Revolution | p. 510 |
| The Freedom Movement, 1954 1965 | p. 512 |
| The Struggle Continues, 1965 1980 | p. 542 |
| Black Politics, White Backlash, 1980 to Present | p. 576 |
| African Americans in the New Millenium | |
| Epilogue: "A Nation Within a Nation" | p. 608 |
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