A Companion to African American History - Hornsby, Alton
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A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day. From their origins in West Africa on the eve of slave trading, through slavery itself and its abolition in the turmoil of the Civil War, and then over the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they struggled for freedom, identity, and place, African Americans occupy a central role in their country's history. This volume surveys the scholarly literature in African…mehr

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A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day. From their origins in West Africa on the eve of slave trading, through slavery itself and its abolition in the turmoil of the Civil War, and then over the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they struggled for freedom, identity, and place, African Americans occupy a central role in their country's history. This volume surveys the scholarly literature in African American history and provides a guide to the research, analyses, and various interpretations and perspectives that historians have developed over the past fifty years. Each essay pays particular attention to geographical features as well as conceptual and methodological issues. In this volume, globalization, region, migration, gender, class, and social forces have been knitted into the broad cultural fabric of African American history. With this Companion , readers now have a complete source to the most recent theories and explanations for the changing contours of African American life.
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Autorenporträt
Alton Hornsby, Jr is Fuller E. Callaway Professor of History at Morehouse College, and former editor of the Journal of Negro History. He is the author of Milestones in 20th Century Black History (1993), and Chronology of African American History (2nd edition, 1997).
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"This recent addition to the Blackwell Companions to AmericanHistory series attests to the maturity of African Americanhistory as a discipline and its movement from the margins ofacademia to its role as a central component of the historicalprofession ... [It] stands as a useful introduction to the study ofAfrican American history and its development. No doubt, studentswill benefit from this exposure to the breadth of African Americanhistoriography."
Journal of Southern History

"Provide[s] good introductions to the writing on the subject ...just the right balance between historiography and a surveyincorporating quotations and illustrations."
History

"A Companion to African American History is avaluable contribution of original essays. Its comprehensivecoverage of themes and topics make this an important volume andessential reading for scholars, students, and general interestreaders."
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University

"Professor Hornsby has assembled a remarkable array ofscholars whose essays tell the story of African Americans fromAfrican roots to present day struggles for identity and a place inAmerican society. These exceptional essays illustrating thecritical role that race and African American culture played informing American culture are essential reading for anyone seekingto understand America."
James Oliver Horton, George Washington University