Review
"This recent addition to the
Blackwell Companions to American History series attests to the maturity of African American history as a discipline and its movement from the margins of academia to its role as a central component of the historical profession ... [It] stands as a useful introduction to the study of African American history and its development. No doubt, students will benefit from this exposure to the breadth of African American historiography."
Journal of Southern History"Provide[s] good introductions to the writing on the subject ... just the right balance between historiography and a survey incorporating quotations and illustrations."
History
“A Companion to African American History is a valuable contribution of original essays. Its comprehensive coverage of themes and topics make this an important volume and essential reading for scholars, students, and general interest readers.”
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
“Professor Hornsby has assembled a remarkable array of scholars whose essays tell the story of African Americans from African roots to present day struggles for identity and a place in American society. These exceptional essays illustrating the critical role that race and African American culture played in forming American culture are essential reading for anyone seeking to understand America.”
James Oliver Horton, George Washington University
Book Description
A Companion to African American History contains state-of-art essays arranged thematically and topically within eight broad chronological periods. The essays survey the scholarly literature in African American history and provide a guide to the research, analyses, and various interpretations and perspectives that historians have presented in the classic and contemporary literature. They chronicle and interpret the African American experience, including African origins and cultural retentions over the breadth of these eight chronological eras. Each essay pays attention to geographical features as well as conceptual and methodological issues. Thus globalization, region, migration, gender, class, and social forces have been knitted into the broad cultural fabric that constitutes the history of African Americans in the US. The volume provides readers with a complete source of the most recent theories and explanations for the changing contours of African American life.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
