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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 February 2023
- ISBN 9780190915155
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 175x113x9 mm
- Weight 154 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 halftones 562
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Short description:
This Very Short Introduction covers the long sweep of African American history from the seventeenth century to the present. Throughout that long arc, this book traces shifting definitions of citizenship as they relate to race and highlights the deep paradox at the core of U.S. history: the interdependence of slavery and freedom. In so doing, Holloway examines key ideas that have shaped African American history, and the ways that these ideas circulate among both well-known figures and ordinary people. It synthesizes cultural, social, political, and intellectual history in order to excavate and analyze the African American past.
MoreLong description:
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those Americans who were enslaved and have suffered from the limitations of second-class citizenship throughout their lives? African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being.
This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. This Very Short Introduction carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans' present and past have value and meaning. At a moment when political debates grapple with the nation's obligation to acknowledge and perhaps even repair its original sin of racialized slavery, author Jonathan Scott Holloway tells a story about American citizens' capacity and willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equal.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America
Chapter 2: Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War
Chapter 3: War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered
Chapter 4: Civilization, race, and the politics of uplift
Chapter 5: The making of the modern Civil Rights Movement(s)
Chapter 6: The paradoxes of post-civil rights America
Epilogue: Stony the road we trod
References
Further Reading
Index
African American History: A Very Short Introduction
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