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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

By Ira Berlin

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2010
ISBN
014311879X, 9780143118794
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24254237 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
320\328
Topic
History
Time added
2023-01-24 04:33:47
African American & BlackAfrican American & Black StudiesAfrican Americans; African Americans; Slave trade;Americanethnic studiesHistoryhttps://archive.org/details/makingofafricana00berlinternalSlaverysocial science

Description

An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's most distinguished historians, offers a revolutionary-and sure to be controversial-new view of African American history. In The Making of African America, Berlin challenges the traditional presentation of a linear, progressive history from slavery to freedom. Instead, he puts forth the idea that four great migrations, between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, lie at the heart of black American culture and its development. With an engrossing, accessible narrative, Berlin traces the transit from Africa to America, Virginia to Alabama, Biloxi to Chicago, Lagos to the Bronx, and in the process finds the essence of black American life.

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