1st Edition

Upon these Shores Themes in the African-American Experience 1600 to the Present

Edited By William R. Scott, William G. Shade Copyright 2000
    480 Pages 15 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, these papers discuss a wide range of topics - from the Middle Passage to the Civil Rights Movement; from abolition to the Great Migration; from issues in religion, class and family to literature, education and politics.

    Foreword
    William H. Gray, III

    Introduction: The Long Rugged Road
    William R. Scott and William G. Shade


    Part I: Out of Africa

    1. Africa, The Slave Trade and the Diaspora
    Joseph C. Miller


    Part II. The Peculiar Institution

    2. Creating a Biracial Society, 1619-1720
    Jean R. Soderlund
    3. Africans in Eighteenth-Century North America
    Peter H. Wood
    4. In Search of Freedom: Slave Life in the Antebellum South
    Norrece T. Jones
    5. Though We Are Not Slaves, We Are Not Free: Blacks in Antebellum America
    William G. Shade

    Part III. The Reconstruction and Beyond

    6. Full of Faith, Full of Hope: The African-American Experience From Emancipation to Segregation
    Armstead Robinson
    7. Blacks in the Economy From Reconstruction to World War I
    Gerald D. Jaynes
    8. In Search of the Promised Land: Black Migration and Urbanization, 1900-1940
    Carole C. Marks
    9. From Booker T. to Malcolm X: Black Political Thought, 1895-1965
    Wilson J. Moses
    10. Rights, Power and Equality: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
    Edward P. Morgan

    Part IV. African American Identity and Culture

    11. The Sounds of Blackness: African American Music
    Waldo F. Martin
    12. Black Voices: Themes in African American Literature
    Gerald Early
    13. Black Religious Traditions: Sacred and Secular Themes
    Gayraud S. Wilmore

    Part V. Family, Class and Gender

    14. African-American Family Life in Societal Context: Crisis and Hope
    Walter R. Allen
    15. From Black Bourgeoisie to African American Middle Class, 1957 to the Present
    Robert Gregg
    16. The New Underclass: Concentrated Poverty in the Post-Industrial City
    John F. Bauman
    17. Black Feminism in the United States
    Beverly Guy-Sheftal

    Part VI. The Post-War Agenda

    18. African-Americans and Education Since the Brown Decisions: A Contextual View
    Stephen N. Butler
    19. After the Movement: African-Americans and Civil Rights Since 1970
    Donald G. Neiman
    20. The Quest for Black Equity: African-American Politics Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965
    Lawrence J. Hanks
    21. Black Internationalism: African-Americans and Foreign Policy Activism
    William R. Scott

    Afterword: The Future of African Americans
    Charles V. Hamilton

    Biography

    William R. Scott is Professor of History and Director of the African-American Studies Program at Lehigh University. He is author of The Sons of Sheba's Race: African Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian War (1993). William G. Shade is Director of the American Studies Program at Lehigh University and Co-Director of the Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is author of Democratizing the Old Dominion (1996) and co-editor, with Sandy Maisel, of Parties and Politics in American History (1994).

    "Beginning with the horrors of the Middle Passage and following African American history through to modern topcis of post-Civil Rights politics, this volume provides an overview of the African American Experience. 23 historians offer a variety of perspectives on topics sucha as urbanization, religion, family life, class literature, music, and education in articles covering slavery, Reconstruction, the formation of black identity and culture, and the Civil Rights movement."
    "...a collection of essays by top scholars that makes compelling reading for anyone." -- Morning Call