144 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present. Kevern Verney examines:
* the role and significance of race in all major forms of popular culture, including sport, film, television, radio and music * how the entertainment industry has encouraged racism through... Read more
INTRODUCTION Emancipation and segregation; Chapter 1 Migration and urbanization, 1915–30; Chapter 2 The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930–45; Chapter 3 The Civil Rights era, 1945–65; Chapter 4 Black Power, 1965–76; Chapter 5 African Americans in US society since 1976;
Biography
Kevern Verney is a Senior Lecturer in American History at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. He is the author of Black Civil Rights in America (Routledge 2000) and The Art of the Possible: Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925 (Routledge 2001).
