Life upon these shores
Subtitle: looking at African American history, 1500-2008
By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher: Knopf; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780307593429
Subjects: African American influences; African Americans; Civilization; Pictorial works; HISTORY / United States / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage; History
Description: "Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.