Creating Black Americans
African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 September 2006
- ISBN 9780195137569
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 236x193x25 mm
- Weight 771 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 110 color illus. & 42 b/w maps & illus. 0
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Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history.
Painter offers a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture. The book describes the staggering number of Africans—over ten million—forcibly transported to the New World, most doomed to brutal servitude in Brazil and the Caribbean. Painter looks at the free black population, numbering close to half a million by 1860 (compared to almost four million slaves), and provides a gripping account of the
horrible conditions of slavery itself. The book examines the Civil War, revealing that it only slowly became a war to end slavery, and shows how Reconstruction, after a promising start, was shut down by terrorism by white supremacists. Painter traces how through the long Jim Crow decades, blacks
succeeded against enormous odds, creating schools and businesses and laying the foundations of our popular culture. We read about the glorious outburst of artistic creativity of the Harlem Renaissance, the courageous struggles for Civil Rights in the 1960s, the rise and fall of Black Power, the modern hip-hop movement, and two black Secretaries of State. Painter concludes that African Americans today are wealthier and better educated, but the disadvantaged are as vulnerable as ever.
Painter deeply enriches her narrative with a series of striking works of art—more than 150 in total, most in full color—works that profoundly engage with black history and that add a vital dimension to the story, a new form of witness that testifies to the passion and creativity of the African-American experience.
* Among the dozens of artists featured are Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Jacob Lawrence, and Kara Walker
* Filled with sharp portraits of important African Americans, from Olaudah Equiano (one of the first African slaves to leave a record of his captivity) and Toussaint L'Ouverture (who led the Haitian revolution), to Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Nell Irvin Painter's Creating Black Americans is destined to become one of the most beautiful history textbooks in recent memory, with roughly 150 creative representations of the African-American experience ranging from painting and sculpture to graffiti art and quilts. Most of the images are in stunning color, some of them filling an entire page."
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Africa and Black Americans
2. Captives Transported, 1619-ca. 1850
3. A Diasporic People, 1630-ca. 1850
4. Those Who Were Free, ca. 1770-1859
5. Those Who Were Enslaved, ca.
6. Civil War and Emancipation, 1859-1865
7. The Larger Reconstruction, 1864-1896
8. Hard-Working People in the Depths of Segregation, 1896-ca. 1919
9. The New Negro, 1915-1932
10. Radicals and Democrats, 1930-1940
11. The Second World War and the Promise of
Internationalism, 1940-1948
12. Cold War Civil Rights: 1948-1960
13. Protest Makes a Civil Rights Revolution: 1960-1967
14. Black Power, 1966-1980
15. Authenticity and Diversity in the Era of Hip-Hop, 1980-2004
Epilogue: A Snapshot of African Americans at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
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