Upon these Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience 1600 to the PresentWilliam R. Scott, William G. Shade Routledge, 31 thg 10, 2013 - 480 trang This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, these papers discuss a wide range of topics - from the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature, education and politics. |
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... developed as part of Executive Order 11246 , which prohibited discrimination by firms doing business with federal government and gave federal agencies power to enforce minority hiring . Fifty thousand marchers , led by Martin Luther ...
... developed as part of Executive Order 11246 , which prohibited discrimination by firms doing business with federal government and gave federal agencies power to enforce minority hiring . Fifty thousand marchers , led by Martin Luther ...
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... develop , and acclaim life while afflicted with brutal injustice and shameful humiliation . This ability to endure affliction , King suggested , sprang from a strong spirituality , a central feature of the rich and resilient culture ...
... develop , and acclaim life while afflicted with brutal injustice and shameful humiliation . This ability to endure affliction , King suggested , sprang from a strong spirituality , a central feature of the rich and resilient culture ...
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... developed to exploit the resources of the area in which they lived . Community identity thus emerged , at the most basic level , out of the distinctive habits of speech adopted by neighbors who lived and worked in close association ...
... developed to exploit the resources of the area in which they lived . Community identity thus emerged , at the most basic level , out of the distinctive habits of speech adopted by neighbors who lived and worked in close association ...
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... developed fewer comparably general cultural similarities . Fifteenth - century Africans would not have attributed much significance to common cultural heritages at this high level of abstraction , nor would they have recognized many of ...
... developed fewer comparably general cultural similarities . Fifteenth - century Africans would not have attributed much significance to common cultural heritages at this high level of abstraction , nor would they have recognized many of ...
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... developed within their territories , but in the fif- teenth century they had not yielded political authority to a single , central ruler . Commercial and political success attracted people of many sorts to the ways of the wealthy and ...
... developed within their territories , but in the fif- teenth century they had not yielded political authority to a single , central ruler . Commercial and political success attracted people of many sorts to the ways of the wealthy and ...
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this peculiar institution | 61 |
Africans in EighteenthCentury North America | 83 |
In Search of Freedom | 102 |
Though We Are Not Slaves | 118 |
Full of Faith Full of Hope | 141 |
From Booker T to Malcolm X | 198 |
Black Religious Traditions | 285 |
AfricanAmerican Family Life in Societal Context | 303 |
From Black Bourgeoisie to AfricanAmerican | 319 |
Black Feminism in the United States | 347 |
African Americans and Education | 369 |
After the Movement | 389 |
The Quest for Black Equity | 404 |
Black Internationalism | 418 |
Rights Power and Equality | 221 |
The Sounds of Blackness | 251 |
Black Voices | 270 |
Afterword | 435 |
Notes on Contributors | 445 |
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