| The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations Contributor(s): Berlin, Ira (Author) |
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ISBN: 014311879X ISBN-13: 9780143118794 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | United States - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 973.049 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.57 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's most distinguished historians, offers a revolutionary-and sure to be controversial-new view of African American history. In The Making of African America, Berlin challenges the traditional presentation of a linear, progressive history from slavery to freedom. Instead, he puts forth the idea that four great migrations, between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, lie at the heart of black American culture and its development. With an engrossing, accessible narrative, Berlin traces the transit from Africa to America, Virginia to Alabama, Biloxi to Chicago, Lagos to the Bronx, and in the process finds the essence of black American life. |