A Companion to African American History (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631230661 ISBN 13: 9780631230663

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

"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. This book analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field. It includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history.

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Review:

"This recent addition to the Blackwell Companions to American History series attests to the maturity of African American history as a discipline and its movement from the margins of academia to its role as a central component of the historical profession ... [It] stands as a useful introduction to the study of African American history and its development. No doubt, students will benefit from this exposure to the breadth of African American historiography."
Journal of Southern History

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

"A Companion to African American History is a valuable contribution of original essays. Its comprehensive coverage of themes and topics make this an important volume and essential reading for scholars, students, and general interest readers."
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University

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

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0631230661
• ISBN 13: 9780631230663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 578
• Editor: Hornsby Jr. Alton