PASSAGEWAYS VOLUME II - Softcover

Palmer, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155024833 ISBN 13: 9780155024830

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1998

Synopsis

PASSAGEWAYS reflects current scholarship on the black past through a thematic and chronological approach. The metaphor PASSAGEWAYS describes the paths blacks in America have forged through racially inspired minefields. The two volumes focus on the ways in which a people imagined and constructed themselves, their institutions, their cultures, and their battles for freedom and equality. Colin A. Palmer is distinguished professor of History at CUNY Graduate School. He has held several fellowships and published widely in the area of the African Diaspora.

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Introduction. 10. Constructing Freedom, 1863-1879. 11. Maintaining White Supremacy: From the Compromise to 1917. 12. Struggling for Direction After 1879. 13. Uplifting the Race: 1879-1917. 14. Constructing an Identity: From Turner to Garvey. 15. The Generation of 1917. 16. Intellectual and Cultural Life: From Emancipation to the Harlem Renaissance. 17. A People in Motion, 1915-1955. 18. Building Organizations, Weathering Storms After Garvey. 19. Looking Outwards: World War I to the Civil Rights Movement. 20. Claiming Equal Rights, 1917-1954. 21. Forcing Change: 1955-1965.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0155024833
• ISBN 13: 9780155024830
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336