Traces the development of white women's liberation, black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
The black experience in America - starting from its origins in western Africa up to the present day - is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through th…
With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders in that city and their white allies seized upon the ideals of the American and French Revolutions and images of revolutionary events in the French Caribbean and demanded liberte, egalite, fraternite. Rooted …
David B. Coplan's pioneering social history of black South Africa's urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon after its publication in 1985. Now completely revised, expanded, and updated, this new edition takes account of developments over the last thi…
How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how dark-skinned peoples, espe…
After the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through innovative constitutional reforms--a radical transformation of southern and national political structures. This book is a comprehensive analysis of both the forces and …
This history of a pivotal group in American society will cause reflection, discussion, and debate. It shows how the black middle class is both a shaper and a mirror and indeed a key force in the "Africanizing" of American culture. In the past three decades the fruits of integrat…