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Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 /

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"Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient map...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
African Americans > History > Pictorial works.
United States > Civilization > African American influences.
Black or African American > history.
United States
Noirs américains > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés.
États-Unis > Civilisation > Influence noire américaine.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
African Americans.
Civilization > African American influences.
United States.
Schwarze.
USA.
United States > Civilization.
Pictorial Work.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Table of Contents:
  • Origins; 1513-1760
  • Forging freedom; 1760-1804
  • "It shall ever be our duty to vindicate our brethren"; 1800-1834
  • Race and resistance; 1834-1850
  • Emergence; 1850-1860
  • War and its meaning; 1859-1865
  • Reconstructing a nation; 1866-1877
  • "There is no Negro problem"; 1877-1895
  • New Negro, old problem; 1895-1900
  • The ordeal of Jim Crow; 1900-1917
  • Renaissance; 1917-1928
  • Growing authority; 1928-1939
  • The era of World War II; 1939-1950
  • Foundations of the new civil rights movements; 1950-1963
  • The movement at high tide; 1963-1968
  • Cultural integration; 1969-1979
  • Achievement; 1980-2008.