African American History - A Very Short Introduction

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America


• Chapter 2: Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War


• Chapter 3: War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered


• Chapter 4: Civilization, race, and the politics of uplift


• Chapter 5: The making of the modern Civil Rights Movement(s)


• Chapter 6: The paradoxes of post-civil rights America


• Epilogue: Stony the road we trod


• References


• Further Reading


• Index

About the author

Jonathan Scott Holloway is President of Rutgers University. He was formerly provost at Northwestern University and Dean of Yale College. He specializes in intellectual and social history, with an emphasis on post-emancipation United States history. His books include Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 and Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr, E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jonathan Scott (President Holloway, Holloway Jonathan Scott
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2023
• EAN: 9780190915155
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091515-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social issues & processes, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions