Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2011.
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
973.0496 GATES
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973.0496 GATES
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2011.
Physical Desc
xvi, 487 pages : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Street Date
1112
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"--,Provided by publisher.