Long Memory: The Black Experience in America - Hardcover

Berry, Mary Frances; Blassingame, John W.

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9780195029093: Long Memory: The Black Experience in America

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195029097 ISBN 13: 9780195029093

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1982

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A survey of Afro-American history is organized around the themes of the family and church, sex and racism, politics, education, criminal justice, and Black nationalism

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About the Author:

Mary Frances Berry is at Howard University. John W. Blassingame is at Yale University.

Review:

"Concise enough to be grasped by students on all levels of academia....Shows profound scholarship and its facility of style renders it a tour de force."--Ralph J. Lowry, Lincoln University

"An excellent book. A modern classic. It is both comprehensive and concise; and therefore very good for undergraduate students with little historical background in African-American studies. The best thing is the approach, which utilizes non-traditional materials to bring a necessary corrective to the distortions and limitations of most texts."--E. Yvonne Moss, University of San Francisco

"Excellent text. Particularly useful for classes in African American culture which may attract a wide range of students."--Willi Coleman, Cal Poly State Uni San Luis?

"The quality of the writing and the concepts is exceptional."--John R. M. Wilson, Southern California College

"An invaluable resource for students of the Afro-American past."--The New Republic

"Excellent interpretative history, ideal for Honors courses and senior classes. Should be in every black scholar's library."--Arthur A. Drayton, University of Kansas

"Few have written more creative history. A brilliantly written and illustrated work."--Leroy T. Williams, University of Arkansas

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