African American Experience Series – serie
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34 produkter
African Americans in the Jazz Age
A Decade of Struggle and Promise
Av Mark R. Schneider, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2006
473 kr
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The victorious end to the first World War offered hope to African Americans who had fought for freedom abroad and hoped to find it at home. In this new work, historian Mark R. Schneider analyzes the dynamic 1920s that saw the enormous migration of African Americans to Northern urban centers and the …
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776
Av Betty Wood, Jacqueline M. Moore
Inbunden, 2005
1244 kr
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Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional …
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776
Av Betty Wood, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2005
473 kr
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Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional …
Bayard Rustin
American Dreamer
Av Jerald Podair, Jacqueline M. Moore
Inbunden, 2008
682 kr
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Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, he made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States, despite being viewed as an "outsider" even by …
African American Experience in Vietnam
Brothers in Arms
Av James E. Westheider, Jacqueline M. Moore
Inbunden, 2007
953 kr
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In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Military service, …
African American Experience in Vietnam
Brothers in Arms
Av James E. Westheider, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2007
473 kr
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In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Military service, …
A. Philip Randolph
A Life in the Vanguard
Av Andrew E. Kersten, Jacqueline M. Moore
Inbunden, 2006
1462 kr
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Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim …
A. Philip Randolph
A Life in the Vanguard
Av Andrew E. Kersten, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2006
545 kr
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Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim …
To Ask for an Equal Chance
African Americans in the Great Depression
Av Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Jacqueline M. Moore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
656 kr
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The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined challenges posed by race and class. "Last hired, first fired," black workers lost their jobs at twice …
To Ask for an Equal Chance
African Americans in the Great Depression
Av Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2010
385 kr
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The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined challenges posed by race and class. "Last hired, first fired," black workers lost their jobs at twice …
African Americans Confront Lynching
Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era
Av Christopher Waldrep, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2009
473 kr
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This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and up to the Clinton era. Christopher Waldrep's semi-biographical approach to the pioneers in the anti-lynching campaign portrays …
Lift Every Voice
The History of African American Music
Av Burton W. Peretti, Jacqueline M. Moore
Inbunden, 2008
735 kr
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Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements of African American culture in the …
Lift Every Voice
The History of African American Music
Av Burton W. Peretti, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2009
560 kr
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Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements of African American culture in the …
Lift Every Voice
The History of African American Music
E-bok, 2008
594 kr
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Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements of African American culture in the …
Through the Storm, Through the Night
A History of African American Christianity
Av Paul Harvey, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2013
459 kr
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Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived …
Through the Storm, Through the Night
A History of African American Christianity
Av Paul Harvey
E-bok, 2011
503 kr
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Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived …
Bayard Rustin
American Dreamer
E-bok, 2008
729 kr
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Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, he made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States, despite being viewed as an "outsider" even by …
A. Philip Randolph
A Life in the Vanguard
E-bok, 2006
594 kr
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Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim …
African American Experience in Vietnam
Brothers in Arms
E-bok, 2007
514 kr
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In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Military service, …
Loyalty in Time of Trial
The African American Experience During World War I
Av Nina Mjagkij, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2014
473 kr
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In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the "Great War.” Prior to World War I, most African Americans did not challenge the racial status quo. But nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military …
Loyalty in Time of Trial
The African American Experience During World War I
Av Nina Mjagkij
E-bok, 2011
221 kr
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The little-known history of black soldiers and defense workers in the First World War, and what happened afterward: "Highly recommended." —Choice In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, historian Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the …
Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift
Av Jacqueline M. Moore, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2003
347 kr
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The beginning of the twentieth century was a critical time in African-American history. Segregation and discrimination were on the rise. Two seminal African American figures began to debate on ways to combat racial problems. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois developed different strategies for …
African American Experience during World War II
Av Neil A. Wynn, Jacqueline M. Moore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
941 kr
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Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development …
Enslaved Women in America
From Colonial Times to Emancipation
Av Emily West
Häftad, 2017
471 kr
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More than a century after Emancipation, no comprehensive overview of the history of the female American slave exists. In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by placing their stories within the broader context of slavery …
African American Experience during World War II
Av Neil A. Wynn, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development …
Working People
A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation
Av Steven A. Reich, Jacqueline M. Moore
Häftad, 2015
471 kr
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In this book, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America’s black workforce since Emancipation. From the abolition of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and Great Recession, African Americans have faced a unique set of …
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Av David K. Wiggins, Jacqueline M. Moore
Inbunden, 2018
515 kr
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More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and …
Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean
From Colonialism to Emancipation
Av Gelien Matthews, Jacqueline M. Moore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
448 kr
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Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean explores the experiences of the enslaved and their struggle to win freedom in the islands of the Caribbean from the end of the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century when formal emancipation came into effect. Captured for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, …
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Av Paul David Escott, Jacqueline M. Moore
Inbunden, 2016
602 kr
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Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or …
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
E-bok, 2016
658 kr
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Paying Freedom''s Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or …
