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The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939
Paper, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13811-6
$26.50
/ £15.50
July, 2006
Cloth, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13810-9
$54.00
/ £32.00
"This new eclectic guide proves valuable as a one-stop work for quick reference as well as basic historical research." — Choice
"The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 offers a valuable narrative and reference tool for readers seeking to deepen their understanding of black American history. Its wealth of thoughtful information includes treatments of important themes by leading experts, biographical sketches, chronologies, and biographies. Truly an amazing resource." — Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University, and author of Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
"This volume is compelling testimony to the remarkable growth of African American studies since World War II. It examines the major developments in African American life and culture during a period in which black men and women confronted and forced American society to reconsider its racial values and practices. In identifying the principal resources and historical themes, the guide is sensitive to the diversity of black expression and black consciousness, to the various ways in which black men and women communicated their feelings, not only through written documents but by drawing on the rich oral expressive tradition that helped to define African Americans, how they perceived themselves, their position in American society, and their relations with the dominant white population." — Leon Litwack, Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History, University of California, Berkeley