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This book is a multifaceted approach to understanding the central developments in African American history since 1939. It combines a historical overview of key personalities and movements with essays by leading scholars on specific facets of the African American experience, a chronology of events, and a guide to further study.
Marian Anderson's famous 1939 concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial was a watershed moment in the struggle for racial justice. Beginning with this event, the editors chart the historical efforts of African Americans to address racism and inequality. They explore the rise of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the national and international contexts that shaped their ideologies and methods; consider how changes in immigration patterns have complicated the conventional "black/white" dichotomy in U.S. society; discuss the often uneasy coexistence between a growing African American middle class and a persistent and sizable underclass; and address the complexity of the contemporary African American experience. Contributors consider specific issues in African American life, including the effects of the postindustrial economy and the influence of music, military service, sports, literature, culture, business, and the politics of self-designation, e.g.,"Colored" vs. "Negro," "Black" vs. "African American".
While emphasizing political and social developments, this volume also illuminates important economic, military, and cultural themes. An invaluable resource, The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 provides a thorough understanding of a crucial historical period.
Author Notes
Robert L. Harris Jr. is professor of African American history in the Africana studies and research center at Cornell University. The author of Teaching African American History , he has been a W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University.Rosalyn Terborg-Penn is professor of history emerita at Morgan State University. She is the author of African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1929 and the coeditor of several titles, including Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia .
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There is no shortage of recently published or forthcoming reference works concerning the African American experience. This includes the six-volume second edition of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (CH, Oct'06, 44-0699). However, this new eclectic guide proves valuable as a one-stop work for quick reference as well as basic historical research. The guide covers the period just prior to WW II through the present, and everything is nicely laid out in an extensive chronology. Eight essays on various topics from music and the arts to military and business precede the chronology and a section of A-Z encyclopedic entries of important African American personalities, organizations, and events. There is also an extensive bibliographical resource guide that lists broad topics such as "Affirmative Action," which are stratified into narrower subtopics and various categories of resources. The guide offers concise geographical listings of major libraries, museums, and historical places, as well as a list of African American newspapers and Web sites for further research. There is also a well-constructed index for easy lookup of topics. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic libraries. B. D. Singleton California State University--San Bernardino
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. xi |
Part I Historical Narrative | p. 1 |
Interpreting African American History Since 1939 | p. 3 |
Foundations of the Movement, 1939-57 | p. 11 |
The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-65 | p. 30 |
Black Power / Black Consciousness, 1965-75 | p. 61 |
A Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty | p. 75 |
Part II Key Themes in African American History Since 1939 | p. 89 |
Naming Ourselves: The Politics and Meaning of Self-designation | p. 91 |
Looking Backward: African Americans in the Postindustrial Era | p. 101 |
African Americans in the Military | p. 120 |
African Americans in Sports: The Other Champions | p. 136 |
African Americans in Literature and the Arts | p. 155 |
Black Music and Black Possibility: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop | p. 172 |
Black Business Development | p. 194 |
Part III Chronology, 1939-2005 | p. 211 |
Part IV A-Z Entries | p. 245 |
Part V Resource Guide | p. 331 |
African American History | |
Textbooks | p. 333 |
Surveys | p. 333 |
Black Women | p. 334 |
General Resources | p. 335 |
Almanacs and Atlases | p. 335 |
Bibliographies | p. 336 |
Biographical Sources | p. 337 |
Chronologies | p. 338 |
Demography | p. 338 |
Encyclopedias | p. 339 |
Film | p. 339 |
Literature | p. 340 |
Manuscript Collections | p. 340 |
Newspapers and Periodicals | p. 341 |
Photography | p. 341 |
Web Sites | p. 342 |
General Military Resources | p. 342 |
Histories | p. 342 |
Bibliographies | p. 343 |
Biographical Sources | p. 343 |
Documents | p. 343 |
Records | p. 343 |
World War II | p. 344 |
Histories | p. 344 |
Archive and Manuscript Sources | p. 351 |
Film and Video | p. 353 |
Desegregation of the Armed Forces | p. 355 |
Korea | p. 355 |
Vietnam | p. 356 |
The Civil Rights Movement | p. 357 |
Historiographies | p. 357 |
Surveys | p. 357 |
Roots of the Movement | p. 358 |
International Context | p. 359 |
Autobiographies | p. 360 |
Biographies | p. 362 |
Documents | p. 365 |
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | p. 366 |
Histories | p. 367 |
Local Studies | p. 369 |
Labor | p. 371 |
Music | p. 371 |
Organizations | p. 372 |
School Desegregation | p. 374 |
Sports | p. 375 |
Film, Video, and Audio | p. 376 |
Manuscripts | p. 379 |
Black Nationalism | p. 384 |
Black Power | p. 384 |
Black Arts and Black Aesthetics | p. 386 |
Urban Rebellions/Riots | p. 386 |
Post-Civil Rights | p. 388 |
Affirmative Action | p. 388 |
Business | p. 389 |
Film | p. 390 |
Race Relations | p. 391 |
Education | p. 393 |
Family | p. 394 |
Politics | p. 395 |
Religion | p. 396 |
Science and Technology | p. 396 |
The 1980s | p. 397 |
The 1990s | p. 397 |
Libraries, Museums, and Historical Sites | p. 398 |
Newspapers, Periodicals, and Journals | p. 403 |
Selected Web Sites | p. 406 |
Contributors | p. 409 |
Index | p. 411 |