African-American History

An Introduction, Third Edition

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9781453917459
• Edition: 2

Every year more colleges and high schools are offering classes (and often making them required classes) in black history. Joanne Turner-Sadler provides a concise and probing treatment of 400 years of black history in America that can be used with age groups ranging from lower high school to college. In African American History: An Introduction the author touches on key figures and events that have shaped African American culture beginning with a look at Africa and its various civilizations and the migration of the African people to America. Some essential topics covered are: the struggle with slavery, the role African Americans played in America's wars (including the current war in Iraq), race riots and unions, the NAACP, civil rights, and black power movements, the Harlem Renaissance, issues in education, the journey into the West, legal cases such as Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education, African Americans as athletes, entertainers, and statesmen.
This book is an indispensable addition to all library collections as well as a teaching tool for instructors. It is heavily illustrated (photos, maps, timelines) with useful end-of-the-chapter questions and activities for further study and includes a handy bibliography of suggested readings and an index. New in this edition is a section on the historic election of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States. Interesting connections Obama has to past presidents are explored as well. This edition also contains enhanced discussions of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and the historic positions both held.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Timelines
• Foreword
• Acknowledgment
• Introduction
• 1. Africa and Civilization
• 2. African Empires
• 3. A Peculiar Institution
• 4. Resistance to Enslavement in the Americas
• 5. Choosing Sides in America’s Early Wars
• 6. Reconstruction
• 7. The Westward Movement
• 8. New Century, Old Problems
• 9. The Early Struggle for Human Rights
• 10. African Americans in American Society
• 11. Hard Times, New Deals, Old Problems
• 12. The Modern Struggle for Civil Rights
• 13. The Black Power Movement
• 14. African Americans and Recent Wars
• 15. From a Legal Point of View
• 16. The Challenge of the Twenty-first Century
• 17. Achievement Against the Odds
• 18. In Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography
• Index