Life upon these shores
looking at African American history, 1500-2008
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Word Count
121,750 words, Guess
Page Count
487 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24839569M
- ISBN-139780307593429
- OCLC Control Number701810357
- OCLC Control Numberlifeuponthesesho00gate
- Library of Congress Control Number2011014277
Classifications
- DDC973/.0496073
- LCCE185 .G27 2011
Description
"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 maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"--
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- Life upon these shores: looking at African American history, 1500-2008
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