The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans - Softcover

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Here for the first time in one comprehensive volume is a visual and narrative portrait of the African-American heritage, culture, and people. It is one of the few single-volume works to highlight the historical and cultural contributions of the African-American population within regional, national, and international frameworks. The ATLAS chronicles important periods in African-American history that have shaped the outlook, lives, and hopes of African-Americans today. More than 130 four-color maps, tables, and diagrams illustrate and complement statistical information covering a wide range of topics, including percentage of population figures, historic locations migration routes, underground railroad sites, the growth of the KKK, Freedom Aid Societies, the Black Middle Class, African-American colleges, and much more. Accompanying text provides persistent themes, and biographical and thematic "snapshots" that are strategically placed to highlight events and people. The effect is to provide the reader with an opportunity to synthesize particular occurrences and the overriding sentiments of the time. The ATLAS is organized into thirteen chapters and examines African origins, the transatlantic journey, African resistance to enslavement, the slave experience, African-American resistance movement to slavery, abolition movements and pro-slavery elements, the Civil War, reconstruction and effects of emancipation, killings and lynchings during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, African-American achievements, and social and economic realities. The ATLAS also provides a section of important dates in African-American history. Listed chronologically from 1619 to 1990, it highlights important occurrences within a frame of reference that enhances reader understanding of its significance. Molefi Asante is Professor and Chairperson of the Dept. of African-American studies at Temple University.

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This oversized (10 x 12), profusely illustrated book offers encyclopedic treatment of the African American experience from African origins to present-day social and economic realities. In addition to the printed text, which is written at the high-school level, the book contains numerous photographs, diagrams, and charts. But what distinguishes the work from similar sources, such as the Encyclopedia of Black America ( LJ 5/15/81), is its 65 informative and clearly drawn maps. Prepared by Mattson, an experienced cartographer, the maps emphasize historical trends (e.g., "African Americans in the Wild West," "Plantations of the Ante-Bellum South," "Pre-Civil War Slave Economy"), while others furnish contemporary demographic data ("African American Families in Poverty, 1989") and distribution information ("Location of African American Newspapers"). Occasional factual errors mar the book. For instance, the now-discredited story that black surgeon and blood bank pioneer Charles Drew bled to death in 1950 because an all-white hospital refused to admit him is repeated as fact. Nevertheless, the atlas will be a valuable addition to school and public library reference collections.
- Kenneth F. Kister, Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Asante, chairman of Temple University's African American studies department, teams up with award-winning cartographer Mattson to produce a map-filled chronicle of the African American experience.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • PublisherMacmillan Pub Co
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0028970292
  • ISBN 13 9780028970295
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages192
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