The bestselling, definitive study of African Americans throughout American history, now with a new introduction by noted scholar V. P. Franklin In The Negro in the Making of America, eminent historian Benjamin Quarles provides one of the most comprehensive and readable accounts ever gathered in one volume of the role that African Americans have played in shaping the destiny of America. Starting with the arrival of the slave ships in the early 1600s and moving through the Colonial period, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and into the last half of the twentieth century,...
The bestselling, definitive study of African Americans throughout American history, now with a new introduction by noted scholar V. P. Franklin...
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality.
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker, who helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party (and won), and Septima Clark, who created a network of -Citizenship Schools- to teach poor Black men and...
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to re...
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that cultural capital from African American communities may be important for closing the gap in the funding of black schools in the 21st century.
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests...
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that cultural capital from African American communities may be important for closing the gap in the funding of black schools in the 21st century.
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests...
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality.
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker, who helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party (and won), and Septima Clark, who created a network of -Citizenship Schools- to teach poor Black men and...
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to re...
Bringing together wide-ranging, critical, and detailed essays that examine hip hop as one of the most influential cultural phenomena of the past half-century, historians, social scientists, literary critics, and educators examine the current state of hip hop, investigate its historical and philosophical linkages to previous African-American social and cultural movements, and explore the ways it may be employed as an emancipatory pedagogy for youth. 378 pp.
Bringing together wide-ranging, critical, and detailed essays that examine hip hop as one of the most influential cultural phenomena of the past half-...
