Black American History For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119780854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 544 str.

Ronda Racha Penrice

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Coming to America 7Chapter 1: The Soul of America 9Chapter 2: From Empires to Bondage: Bringing Africans to the Americas 33Chapter 3: The Founding of Black America 49Part 2: Long Road to Freedom 63Chapter 4: American Slavery, American Freedom 65Chapter 5: Bringing Down the House: Marching toward Civil War and Freedom 85Chapter 6: Up from Slavery: Civil War and Reconstruction 109Part 3: Pillars of Change: The Civil Rights Movement 135Chapter 7: Living Jim Crow 137Chapter 8: I, Too, Sing America: The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1963 163Chapter 9: Turning Up the Heat (1963-1968) 187Chapter 10: Where Do We Go from Here? Post-Civil Rights 207Chapter 11: The New Civil Rights -- Obama, Black Lives Matter, and Beyond 233Part 4: Cultural Foundations 259Chapter 12: Somebody Say "Amen": The Black Church 261Chapter 13: More Than Reading and Writing: Education 285Chapter 14: Writing Down the Bones: Black Literature 307Chapter 15: The Great Black Way: Theater and Dance 331Part 5: A Touch of Genius: Music, Film, TV, and Sports 357Chapter 16: Give Me a Beat: Black Music 359Chapter 17: Black Hollywood: Film and Comedy 393Chapter 18: Black Hollywood: TV 427Chapter 19: Winning Ain't Easy: Race and Sports 449Part 6: The Part of Tens 479Chapter 20: Ten Black American Firsts 481Chapter 21: Ten Black Literary Classics 487Chapter 22: Ten (Plus One) Influential Black American Visual Artists 493Index 501

O autorze

Ronda Racha Penrice attended the M.A. program in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. A veteran freelance writer, the Columbia University alum has covered Black history and culture for publications including Zora, Essence, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ebony, theGrio, The Root, and NBC THINK.