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Whoever has tried to understand the "Black Experience" in the United States is well aware of its controversial nature. Highly regarded scholars often differ markedly in their interpretations of empirical findings. For many years, for example, the views of Melville J. Herskovits and E. Franklin Frazier about the extent of African influence on American Negro life have been hotly debated. Of late, other controversies have been dealt with in symposia, journal articles and rejoinders, and the inevitable campus hortatory. Included here, among others, are the polemics over Stanley Elkins' interpretation of slavery, over the Moynihan Report, and over William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner.
Slavery and its Aftermath offers the reader the opportunity to see--and indeed, to participate in--such continuing debates, so that by intellectual involvement in what are probably the most crucial areas of discussion he will come to understand the complex character of life for black Americans. This volume deals with four controversies: the retention of "Africanisms," the impact of slavery on personality and social structure, life in the South and in the North, and the current status of black Americans. The work contains essays on the roots of black protest, comments on the background and character of the Black Revolt and the Civil Rights Movement, interpretations of the impact and significance of Black Power, and varied views on changing self-images of being African-American.
Though conceived as a continuum, each of the two volumes is a distinct, self-contained entity. The first is particularly concerned with general background and life styles, the second with protest and attempts to develop new communal activities and avenues of expression. Both should be most useful to all concerned with teaching and learning about the Black Experience, be it in traditional social science or history programs, in special seminars, or in Afro-American studies.
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Peter I. Rose is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and senior fellow at the Kahn Institute at Smith College and visiting fellow at Stanford University. His recent books include The Dispossessed, Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor, the 50th anniversary edition of They and We, and Americans from Africa, Volumes 1 & 2.
Reviews on both Volume 1, Slavery and its Aftermath, and Volume 2, Old Memories, New Moods:
“These two volumes provide a compendium of the kaleidoscope of roots, patterns, consequences, and meaning of the black protest.”
—Tommy Rogers, The Journal of Negro History
“Taken together, the two volumes of the Americans from Africa series provide a comprehensive selection of articles on the black experience.... Peter I. Rose has done a masterful job of illuminating the central debates concerning the past, present, and future of the American Negro.”
—William McCord, Social Forces
“This collection of papers is one of the best of an outpouring of new readers on race issues.... Whether looked upon as matters of serious social policy or as crucial questions for further social research, responsible resolution of these issues still requires a great deal of important homework. Rose is to be congratulated for reminding us of this so powerfully with this thoughtfully organized reader.”
—Paul S. Denise, Contemporary Sociology
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 020230941X
- ISBN 13 9780202309415
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages486
- EditorRose Peter I.
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