Slavery to Liberation The African American Experience

Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical...

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Main Authors: Farrington, Joshua (Author), Powell, Norman W. (Author), Graham, Gwendolyn (Author), Anyanwu, Ogechi E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Richmond, Kentucky Encompass Digital Archive 2019.
Edition:2nd Edition
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1: Introduction to the African American Experience, by Aaron Thompson
  • Ch. 2: Concepts of Beauty: Black and White Connotations, by Norman Powell
  • Ch. 3: Gumboot Dancing, Origins, Influences and Uses, by Nicola Mason
  • Ch. 4: “The Strong Cords of Affection” Enslaved African American Families and Escape to the U.S. North and Canada, 1800 1861, by Oran Kennedy
  • Ch. 5: Some Notes on the History of Black Sexuality in the United States, by John P. Elia
  • Ch. 6: Race, Identity, and Choice: Black Voices on Liberia and the American Colonization Society, Thomas Keefe
  • Ch. 7: The Education of African Americans in the U.S., by Jayne Beilke
  • Ch. 8: “It is Our Freedom that Makes Us Different”: Freedom and Identity in Post-Civil War Indian Territory and Oklahoma, by Leroy Myers
  • Ch. 9: Eco-ability: The Complex Embodiment of Blind Lemon Jefferson, by Jonathan S. Lower
  • Ch. 10: "Fire on the Hills" : The All-Black 2nd Ranger Infantry Company, by James Sandy
  • Ch. 11: Prophecy in the Streets: Prophetic Christianity and the Civil Rights Movement, by Richard Thomas
  • Ch. 12: “The Whole Matter Revolves around the Self-Respect of My People”: Black Conservative Women in the Civil Rights Era, by Joshua D. Farrington
  • Ch. 13: The Origins of Africana Studies: A Brief History of a Scholar Activist Tradition, by Sekhmet Ra Em Kht Maat and Shelby Pumphre
  • Ch. 14: The Vanguard of the Revolution: A Retrospective Analysis of the Black Panther Party, by Umeme Sababu
  • Ch. 15: "Black Steel”: Intraracial Rivalry, Soft Power, and Prize Fighting in the Cold War World, by Andrew Smith
  • Ch. 16: Black Martial Artists: Modernity in Pursuit of an African Fighting System in the African Diaspora, by Latif A. Tarik
  • Ch. 17: Womanifesto: Historicizing the Literary Activism of Claudia Jones and Assata Shakur, by Kimberly F. Monroe
  • Ch. 18: Critical Issues in African American Health, by Kevin McQueeney
  • Ch. 19: Black Radicalism, Black Consciousness, Black History, Black Liberation, Black YouTube: A New Age Revolution, by Cheryl Mango
  • Ch. 20: For the Culture: Examining the Electoral Success of African American Incumbents in the U.S. Congress, by Emmitt Y. Riley, III
  • About the Editors and Contributors
  • Ch. 14: For the Culture: Examining the Electoral Success of African American Incumbents in the U.S. Congress, by Emmitt Y. Riley III