The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939

Edited by Robert L. Harris, Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

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

Introduction

Part I: Historical Narrative, by Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Interpreting African American History Since 1939

Foundations of the Movement, 1939-57

The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-65

Black Power / Black Consciousness, 1965-75

A Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty

Part II: Key Themes in African American History Since 1939

Naming Ourselves: The Politics and Meaning of Self-designation, by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Looking Backward: African Americans in the Postindustrial Era, by Robin D. G. Kelley

African Americans in the Military, by Brenda L. Moore

African Americans in Sports: The Other Champions, by Sundiata Djata

African Americans in Literature and the Arts, by Kevin Gaines and Penny M. Von Eschen

Black Music and Black Possibility: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop, by Craig Werner

Black Business Development, by Juliet Walker

Part III: Chronology, 1939-2005

Robert L. Harris Jr.

Part IV: A-Z Entries

Robert L. Harris Jr. with the assistance of Michelle R. Scott

Part V: Resource Guide

Debra Newman Ham

Related Subjects

• American History
• Reference

Series

• Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures

About the Author

Robert L. Harris Jr. is professor of African American history in the Africana studies and research center at Cornell University. The author of Teaching African American History, he has been a W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn is professor of history emerita at Morgan State University. She is the author of African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1929 and the coeditor of several titles, including Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.

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