Americans from Africa: Slavery and Its Aftermath

ISBN-13: 9781138518810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 488 str.

Peter I. Rose

Opis

Americans from Africa seeks to convey varying perspectives on the "Black Experience" in the United States and its controversial history

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Contents
Preface to the Transaction Edition
Acknowledgments
Contributors

Introduction
I. The African as Slave
Africa and the New Americans
1 Africanisms in Secular Life
Melville J. Herskovits
2 The Significance of the African Background
E. Franklin Frazier
3 Between Two Cultures
Kenneth M. Stampp
4 The Negro Laborer in Africa and the Slave South
Eugene D. Genovese
5 Art Not Artifact
LeRoi Jones
Suggested Readings

The Legacy of Slavery
6 Modern Tensions and the Origins of American Slavery
Winthrop D. Jordan
7 Slavery in the Old South
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
8 Slavery and Negro Personality
Stanley M. Elkins
9 Chattel Slavery and Concentration Camps
Earle E. Thorpe
10 Slavery and the Origins of Black Culture: Elkins Revisited
Mina Davis Caulfield

II. This Side of Jordan
Down Home and Up North
11 Uncle Remus and the Malevolent Rabbit
Bernard Wolfe
12 The Blackways of Kent
Hylan Lewis
13 Growing Up in the Black Belt: Ten Profiles
Charles S. Johnson
14 Harlem, My Harlem
Claude Brown
15 Urban Blues
Charles Keil
16 The Rhetoric of Soul
Ulf Hannerz

Community, Class, and Family Life
17 Community and Class Realities
G. Franklin Edwards
18 The Psychology of the Ghetto
Kenneth B. Clark
19 The Negro Family
Daniel P. Moynihan
20 The Negro Family and the Moynihan Report
Laura Carper
21 New Trends in Civil Rights
Benjamin F. Payton
22 Some Social Consequences of Research on Racial Relations
Melvin M. Tumin
Suggested Readings

Index

O autorze

Peter I. Rose