Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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 inAmerican History (1994).

Reviews

"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