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Creating Black Americans : African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present

ISBN: 9780195137552 | 0195137558
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/1/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Painter offers a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture. The book describes the staggering number of Africans--over ten million--forc... MORE
Prefaceix
Acknowledgmentsxv
Africa and Black Americans
3(18)
Captives Transported, 1619--ca. 1850
... MORE(22)
A Diasporic People, 1630--ca. 1850
43(20)
Those Who Were Free, ca. 1770--1859
63(20)
Those Who Were Enslaved, ca. 1770--1859
83(22)
Civil War and Emancipation, 1859--1865
105(24)
The Larger Reconstruction, 1864--1896
129(18)
Hard-Working People in the Depths of Segregation, 1896--ca. 1919
147(26)
The New Negro, 1915--1932
173(24)
Radicals and Democrats, 1930--1940
197(22)
The Second World War and the Promise of Internationalism, 1940--1948
219(20)
Cold War Civil Rights, 1948--1960
239(26)
Protest Makes a Civil Rights Revolution, 1960--1967
265(26)
Black Power, 1966--1980
291(30)
Authenticity and Diversity in the Era of Hip-Hop, 1980--2005
321(24)
Epilogue: A Snapshot of African Americans in the Early Twenty-First Century345(16)
Timelines361(10)
Notes371(40)
Further Reading411(6)
Artists Whose Work Appears in Creating Black Americans417(22)
Picture Credits439(6)
Index445

Nell Irvin Painter is the Edward Professor of American History at Princeton. A former Director of Princeton's Program in African-American Studies, she is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919.

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