TO MAKE OUR WORLD ANEW by Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) ( 9780195139457 )

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Title:

TO MAKE OUR WORLD ANEW
A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

By:

Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£56.00
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ISBN 10:

0195139453

ISBN 13:

9780195139457

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

6 July, 2000

Pages:

688

Description:

This book is the only comprehensive, illustrated history of African Americans. Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this book describes how African Americans have shaped and changed the history of this country. It traces the history of Africans in America from 1502 to the present. The book looks at American history from the unique perspective of African American, paying special attention to the forging of African American communities,the changing statues of African Americans over time, and the transformation that has been wrought through social protest. Primary sources are used extensively, and there will be an 8-page insert of colour illustrations of cultural significance.

Synopsis:

"To Make Our World Anew" reconstructs U.S. history through the experiences and struggles of black Americans.Written by a stellar team of historians, this volume offers a panoramic view of black life, rich with first-person accounts that invite readers to view the past through the eyes of African Americans. Beginning with the African background and the colonisation of the AMericas, "To Make Our World Anew" examines the transformation of slavery from a brutal form of indentured servitude to a full-blown system of racial domination; the critical role African Americans played in shaping and ultimately destroying American racial slavery; their unflagging efforts to define freedom, not only for themselves but for the entire nation; and the ways in which industrial and post-industrial transformations shaped black life, thought, culture, and resistence in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet this is not a story of victims, but a dramatic saga of a people who dared to fight back: a people who quite literally reamade America several times over. In spite of their condition, African Americans were still human beings endowed with intellect, creativity, and vision.They came to North American shores from various ethnic groups and speaking many languages, but they forged a strong sense of community and created new identities from their ethnic past and racial present. The authors pay special attention to difference and diversity. By exploring the hidden social and cultural history of women and ordinary working people (free and slave), they paint a fully textured portrait of black communities that cosiders divisions by gender, class, colour, and sexuality. And the authors extend their vision beyond the united States, examining the impact of key events such as the Haitian Revolution and the Spanish-American War. By acknowledging African Americans as part of a larger African diaspora, the book links the struggles of blacks in the United States to those of displaced Africans throughout the world. With new insightand impeccable scholarship, "To Make Our World Anew" dramatically demonstrates how generations of Africa's descendeants, in their ongoing quest for freedom, have transformed our world and made it a better place - for everyone.

Illustrations:

8 pp colour plates, numerous halftones

Publication:

Imprint:

Oxford University Press Inc

Returns:

Returnable

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