Crosscurrents in African American History

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1. Blackening Europe

   The African American Presence

   Edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture...

   Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge
2. Problematizing Blackness

   Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States

   By Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy Hintzen

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community....

   Published September 29th 2003 by Routledge
3. Hitler's Black Victims

   The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era

   By Clarence Lusane

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the...

   Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge
4. Black Religious Intellectuals

   The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century

   By Clarence Taylor

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   Professor Clarence Taylor sheds some much-needed light on the rich intellectual and political tradition that lies in the black religious community. From the Pentecostalism of Bishop Smallwood Williams and the flamboyant leadership of the Reverend Al Sharpton, to the radical Presbyterianism of...

   Published September 19th 2002 by Routledge
5. Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

   Collected Essays and Second Thoughts

   By Douglas R. Egerton

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history....

   Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge
6. Contested Terrain

   African American Women Migrate from the South to Cincinnati, 1900-1950

   By Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   This in-depth study focuses on black women migrants to the North and in doing so examines the interaction of race, class, regionalism, and gender during the early years of the 20th century....

   Published March 21st 2002 by Routledge
7. The Art of the Possible

   Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925

   By Kevern J. Verney

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   The Art of The Possible is a new study of the ideas and achievements of Booker T. Washington, the most influential African American leader of the period 1881-1915....

   Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge
8. Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis

   Blacks in the Industrial City, 1900-1950

   By Henry L. Taylor Jr., Walter Hill

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   This collection of 12 new essays will tell the story of how the gradual transformation of industrial society into service-driven postindustrial society affected black life and culture in the city between 1900 and 1950, and it will shed light on the development of those forces that wreaked havoc in...

   Published July 23rd 2000 by Routledge
9. Gender in the Civil Rights Movement

   Edited by Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith

   Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

   Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge
10. Moving On

    Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World

    Edited by John W. Pulis

    Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

    Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge