African American history [electronic resource] : a very short introduction / Jonathan Scott Holloway.

"What does it mean to be an American? African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This Very Short Introduction narrates the creation of racialized chattel slavery, the dismant...

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Main Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Very short introductions
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
Online Access:
Oxford Very Short Introductions: 2023 (Oxford Academic)
Variant Title:
African American History: A Very Short Introduction
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • What does it mean to be American?
  • Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America
  • Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War
  • War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered
  • Civilization, race, and the politics of uplift
  • The making of the modern Civil Rights Movement(s)
  • The paradoxes of post-civil rights America
  • Stony the road we trod.