Long Memory The Black Experience in America

by Berry, Mary Frances; Blassingame, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780195029109
• ISBN10: 0195029100
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-07-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This powerful, provocative survey is organized around the key issues of Afro-American history: Africa and slavery, family, religion, sex and racism, politics, economics, education, criminal justice, discrimination and protest movements, and black nationalism.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvii
Africa, Slavery, and the Shaping of Black Culture	p. 3
An Unsecure People: Free Negroes in America	p. 33
Family and Church: Enduring Institutions	p. 70
Sex and Racism	p. 114
Blacks and the Politics of Redemption	p. 142
The Economics of Hope and Despair	p. 195
American Archipelago: Blacks and Criminal Justice	p. 227
The Battle for Education	p. 261
Military Service and the Paradox of Loyalty	p. 295
White Proscriptions and Black Protests	p. 342
Black Nationalism	p. 388
Bibliography	p. 424
Some Significant Dates in Black American History	p. 457
Index	p. 463
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