This rich cultural history of African Americans outlines their travails, triumphs, and achievements in negotiating individual and collective identities to overcome racism, slavery, and the legacies of these injustices from colonial times to the present. One of every five Americans at the nation's beginning was an African American-a fact that underscores their importance in U.S. growth and development. This fascinating study moves from Africans' early contacts with the Americas to African Americans' 21st-century presence, exploring their role in building the American nation and in constructing…mehr
This rich cultural history of African Americans outlines their travails, triumphs, and achievements in negotiating individual and collective identities to overcome racism, slavery, and the legacies of these injustices from colonial times to the present. One of every five Americans at the nation's beginning was an African American-a fact that underscores their importance in U.S. growth and development. This fascinating study moves from Africans' early contacts with the Americas to African Americans' 21st-century presence, exploring their role in building the American nation and in constructing their own identities, communities, and cultures. Historian and lawyer Thomas J. Davis's multi-themed narrative of compelling content provides a historical overview of the rise of African Americans from slavery and segregation in their anti-racist quest to enjoy equal rights and opportunities to reach the American Dream of pursuing happiness. The work features portraits of individuals and treats images of African Americans in their roles as performers, producers, consumers, and creators, and as the face of social problems such as crime, education, and poverty.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Thomas Davis has had a long career in American Indian education, beginning with the founding of the Menominee County Community School in Northern Wisconsin and later the College of Menominee Nation. He has served as president or chief academic officer at Lac Courtes Oreilles Ojibwe College, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Little Priest Tribal College, and Navajo Technical University. At Bay Mills Community College, he worked with Indian Head Start in Washington, DC to establish one of the earliest virtual degree-granting programs in the United States. Davis has had an equally long career as a poet and writer. His novel, In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, won the Edna Ferber Fiction Award in 2019. He has had two book-length epic poems published, The Weirding Storm, A Dragon Epic and An American Spirit, An American Epic. His acclaimed nonfiction book, Sustaining the Forest, the People, and the Spirit focuses on the sustainable development history and practices of the Menominee Indians of Northern Wisconsin. Davis has edited three small magazines and, with his wife, the poet-artist Ethel Mortenson Davis, owns Four Windows Press, a small publishing house.
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Preface Introduction Chronology of Key Dates in African American History 1. Voyage to These Shores 2. Coming to America 3. A People in the Making 4. Strike a Blow and Steal Away 5. Keep on Keeping on 6. Under the Lash 7. Lift That Bale 8. The Way They Do My Life 9. There's a Change Coming 10. Actual Freedom 11. A Dream Deferred 12. A New Negro 13. A Great Depression 14. Conquer Hate 15. Keep on Pushing 16. The Revolution Was Televised 17. Fight the Power 18. Challenges, Dreams, and Hopes Selected Bibliography Index
Preface Introduction Chronology of Key Dates in African American History 1. Voyage to These Shores 2. Coming to America 3. A People in the Making 4. Strike a Blow and Steal Away 5. Keep on Keeping on 6. Under the Lash 7. Lift That Bale 8. The Way They Do My Life 9. There's a Change Coming 10. Actual Freedom 11. A Dream Deferred 12. A New Negro 13. A Great Depression 14. Conquer Hate 15. Keep on Pushing 16. The Revolution Was Televised 17. Fight the Power 18. Challenges, Dreams, and Hopes Selected Bibliography Index
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