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To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans
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by Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis
Sales Rank: 39005
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 688 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA July 6, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195139453
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195139457
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
Since nearly any History of African Americans is bound to be compared to John Hope Franklin's masterwork From Slavery to Freedom, perhaps it's best to state straightaway that To Make Our World Anew does indeed measure up to, and on some levels surpass, Franklin's epochal work. In this impressive multidisciplinary book, professors Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis bring together nine scholars, including Colin Palmer, Vincent Harding, Peter Wood, and Barbara Blair, to outline the 500-year African American experience, from the Middle Passage to the Million Man March. "The History of African Americans is nothing less than the dramatic saga of a people attempting to remake the world," Kelley and Lewis write. "Even when they did not succeed, the actions, thoughts, and dreams of Africans are responsible for some of the most profound economic, political, and cultural developments in the modern west." Every aspect of the African American experience is explored: slavery, slave rebellions, emancipation, segregation, lynchings, civil rights, and the post civil rights era. Major figures like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Harriet Tubman are highlighted, as are the lesser-known exploits of Esteban, the Afro-Moorish slave who "discovered" New Mexico and Arizona, and Henry "Box" Brown, the Virginia slave who escaped to freedom by putting himself in a coffin-like box that was shipped to Philadelphia. The book is particularly strong on late-20th-century social issues, with insightful coverage of the attack on affirmative action and the impact of immigration, crack cocaine, and AIDS on the black community. To Make Our World Anew is essential reading for anyone interested in the black American experience. --Eugene Holley Jr.
From Publishers Weekly
A detailed survey of African-American life before the 21st century, this volume contains ten essays by academics, arranged chronologically to provide an invigorating History from the Middle Passage to the election of Maxine Waters to the House of Representatives and the death of Amadou Diallo at the hands of New York City police officers in 1999. In a chapter covering the Great Depression and WWII, William Trotter reveals that blacks called the New Deal "the raw deal" and the National Recovery Act "the Negro Run Around." Noralee Frankel's "Breaking the Chains" explains how, after the Civil War, many black farmers became landless sharecroppers in the shadow of federal programs designed to alleviate the suffering of the poor. James R. Grossman documents how "curriculum and school leadership [in the early 1900s] reflected different notions of how black Americans could attain full citizenship in a nation seemingly committed to their subordination." Other offerings discuss "rent parties," the transformation of the union movement from a roadblock to a facilitator of black rights, the development of Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet," Marcus Garvey, Jimi Hendrix and The Cosby Show. The scholarship sparkles throughout, offering not just the "what," but also the "why" of the social, cultural and political events shaping the present. Editors Kelley and Lewis have synthesized the vast knowledge of contemporary African-American studies into a single, fluid volume that provides an intelligent introduction to the history's intricacies, divisions and accomplishments. (May)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
I feel this work significantly surpasses Franklin's "From Slavery to Freedom" in organization, scholarship and literary excellence. Immensely relevant, it is expressed with heartfelt vibrance. Certainly the "people-making process" captured here should be understood by all Americans in gaining a more realistic perspective of the dynamics that made this country. This work brings together eleven leading historians in a classic presentation seldom achieved for readability, cogency and effectiveness. It is a must in any African American library.
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