The African-American odyssey

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A compelling story of agency: survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history - not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-Ameri...

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Main Author: Hine, Darlene Clark
Other Authors: Hine, William C., Harrold, Stanley
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2011.
Edition:5th ed.
Subjects:
African Americans.
African Americans > History.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Becoming African American
  • 1. Africa, ca. 6000 BCE-ca. 1600 CE
  • A huge and diverse land
  • The birthplace of humanity
  • Ancient civilizations and old arguments
  • Egyptian civilization
  • Kush, Meroë,and Axum
  • West Africa
  • Ancient Ghana
  • voices. Al Bakri describes Kumbi Saleh and Ghana's Royal Court
  • The empire of Mali, 1230-1468
  • The empire of Shonghai, 1464-1591
  • The West African forest region
  • Kongo and Angola
  • West African society and culture
  • Families and villages
  • voices. A Dutch visitor describes Benin City
  • profile. Nzinga Mbemba (Affonso I) of Kongo
  • Women
  • Class and slavery
  • Religion
  • Art and music
  • Literature : oral histories, poetry, and tales
  • Technology
  • roots of culture. The ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu
  • 2. Middle passage, ca. 1450-1809
  • The European age of exploration and colonization
  • The slave trade in Africa
  • The origins of the Atlantic slave trade
  • Growth of the Atlantic slave trade
  • The African-American ordeal from capture to destination
  • The crossing
  • The slavers and their technology
  • A slave's story
  • A captain's story
  • profile. Olaudah Equinano
  • Provisions for the middle passage
  • Sanitation, disease, and death
  • voices. The journal of a Dutch slaver
  • Resistance and revolt at sea
  • Cruelty
  • profile. Ayuba Suleiman Diallo of Bondu
  • voices. Dysentery (or the bloody flux)
  • African women on slave ships
  • Landing and sale in the West Indies
  • Seasoning
  • The end of the journey : masters and slaves in the Americas
  • The ending of the Atlantic slave trade
  • visualizing the past. The voyage to slavery
  • 3. Black people in colonial North America, 1526-1763
  • The peoples of North America
  • American Indians
  • The Spanish empire
  • The British and Jamestown
  • Africans arrive in the Chesapeake
  • Black servitude in the Chesapeake
  • Race and the origins of Black slavery
  • The emergency of Chattel slavery
  • Bacon's rebellion and American slavery
  • Plantation slavery, 1700-1750
  • Tobacco colonies
  • profile. Anthony Johnson-- Low-country slavery
  • voices. A description of an eighteenth-century Virginia plantation
  • Plantation technology
  • Slave life in early America
  • Miscegenation and creolization
  • The origins of African-American culture
  • The Great Awakening
  • Language, music, and folk literature
  • The African-American impact on colonial culture
  • 4. Rising expectations : African Americans and the struggle for independence, 1763-1783
  • The crisis of the British empire
  • The Declaration of Independence and African Americans
  • profile. Crispus Attucks
  • The impact of the enlightenment
  • African Americans in the Revolutionary debate
  • voices. Boston's slaves link their freedom to American liberty
  • Black enlightenment
  • Phillis Wheatley and poetry
  • voices. Phillis Wheatley on liberty and natural rights
  • Benjamin Banneker and science
  • African Americans in the War for Independence
  • Black loyalists
  • Black patriots
  • The Revolution and emancipation
  • The revolutionary impact
  • The revolutionary promise
  • 5. African Americans in the new nation, 1783-1820
  • Forces for freedom
  • Northern emancipation
  • The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  • profile. Elizabeth Freeman
  • Antislavery societies in the north and the upper south
  • Manumission and self-purchase
  • The emergence of a free Black class in the south
  • Forces for slavery
  • The U.S. Constitution
  • Cotton
  • The Louisiana Purchase and African Americans in the lower Mississippi Valley
  • Conservatism and racism
  • The emergence of free Black communities
  • The origins of independent Black churches
  • voices. Richard Allen on the break with St. George's Church
  • The first Black schools
  • voices. Absalom Jones petitions Congress on behalf of fugitives facing reenslavement
  • Black leaders and choices
  • profiles. James Forten
  • Migration
  • Slave uprisings
  • The white southern reaction
  • The War of 1812
  • The Missouri Compromise
  • pt. 2. Slavery, abolition, and the quest for freedom : the coming of the Civil War, 1793-1861
  • 6. Life in the cotton kingdom, 1793-1861
  • The expansion of slavery
  • Slave population growth
  • profile. Solomon Northrup
  • Ownership of slaves in the old South
  • Tobacco
  • Rice
  • Sugar
  • Cotton
  • Cotton and technology
  • Other crops
  • House servants and skilled slaves
  • Urban and industrial slavery
  • voices. Frederick Douglass on the readiness of masters to use the whip
  • Punishment
  • The domestic slave trade
  • Slave families
  • profile. William Ellison
  • Children
  • voices. A slaveholder describes a new purchase
  • Sexual exploitation
  • Diet
  • Clothing
  • Health
  • The socialization of slaves
  • Religion
  • The character of slavery and slaves
  • 7. Free Black people in Antebellum America, 1820-1861
  • Demographics of freedom
  • The Jacksonian era
  • Limited freedom in the North
  • The Black family
  • The struggle for employment
  • The Northern Black elite
  • voices. Maria W. Stewart on the condition of Black workers
  • Inventors
  • Professionals
  • Artists and musicians
  • Authors
  • African-American institutions
  • Churches
  • profile. Stephen Smith and William Whipper, partners in Business and reform
  • voices. The Constitution of the Pittsburgh African Education Society
  • Schools
  • Voluntary Associations
  • Free African Americans in the Upper South
  • Free African Americans in the Deep South
  • Free African Americans in the Far West
  • 8. Opposition to slavery, 1730-1833
  • Abolitionism begins in America
  • From Gabriel to Denmark Vesey
  • A country in turmoil
  • Political paranoia
  • The second Great Awakening
  • The benevolent empire
  • Colonization
  • Black nationalism and colonization
  • Black opposition to colonization
  • Black abolitionist women
  • voices. William Watkins opposes colonization
  • The Baltimore Alliance
  • profile. Maria W. Stewart
  • voices. A Black woman speaks out on the right to education
  • David Walker and Nat Turner
  • profile. David Walker
  • roots of culture. Freedom's journal
  • 9. Let your motto be resistance, 1833-1850
  • A rising tide of racism and violence
  • Antiblack and antiabolitionist riots
  • Texas and the war against Mexico
  • The antislavery movement
  • The American Anti-slavery Society
  • Black and women's antislavery societies
  • Moral suasion
  • profile. Sojourner Truth
  • Black convention movement
  • Black churches in the antislavery cause
  • Black newspapers
  • voices. Frederick Douglass describes an awkward situation
  • The American and Foreign Anti-slavery Society and the Liberty Party
  • profile. Henry Highland Garnet
  • A more aggressive abolitionism
  • The Amistad and the Creole
  • The Underground Railroad
  • Technology and the Underground Railroad
  • Canada West
  • Black militancy
  • voices. Martin R. Delany describes his vision of a Black nation
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Revival of Black nationalism
  • visualizing the past. Speaking out against slavery
  • 10. "And Black people were at the heart of it", 1846-1861
  • The lure of the West
  • Free labor versus slave labor
  • The Wilmot Proviso
  • African Americans and the gold rush
  • California and the Compromise of 1850
  • Fugitive slave laws
  • voices. African Americans respond to the Fugitive Slave Law
  • Fugitive slaves
  • William and Ellen Craft
  • profile. Mary Ellen Pleasant
  • Shadrach Minkins
  • The battle at Christiana
  • Anthony Burns
  • profile. Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave
  • Margaret Garner
  • The Rochester Convention, 1853
  • Nativism and the Know-Nothings
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Preston Brooks attacks Charles Sumner
  • The Dred Scott decision
  • Questions for the court
  • Reaction to the Dred Scott decision
  • White Northerners and Black Americans
  • profile. Martin Delany
  • The Lincoln-Douglas debates
  • Abraham Lincoln and Black people
  • John Brown and the Raid on Harpers Ferry
  • Planning the raid
  • The raid
  • The reaction
  • The election of Abraham Lincoln
  • Black people respond to Lincoln's election
  • Disunion
  • pt. 3. The civil War, emancipation, and Black Reconstruction : the Second American Revolution
  • 11. Liberation : African Americans and the Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Lincoln's aims
  • Black men volunteer and are rejected
  • Union policies toward Confederate slaves
  • "Contraband"
  • Lincoln moves toward emancipation
  • Lincoln delays emancipation
  • Black people reject colonization
  • The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
  • Northern reaction to emancipation
  • Political opposition to emancipation
  • The Emancipation Proclamation
  • Limits of the proclamation
  • Effects of the proclamation on the South
  • Black men fight for the Union
  • The first South Carolina Volunteers
  • profile. Elizabeth Keckley
  • The second South Carolina Volunteers
  • The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
  • Black soldiers confront discrimination
  • Black men in combat
  • The assault on Battery Wagner
  • Olustee
  • The Crater
  • voices. Lewis Douglass describes the fighting at Battery Wagner
  • The confederate reaction to Black soldiers
  • The abuse and murder of Black troops
  • The Fort Pillow Massacre
  • voices. A Black nurse on the horrors of war and the sacrifice of Black soldiers
  • Black men in the Union Navy
  • Liberators, spies, and guides
  • Violent opposition to Black people
  • The New York City Draft Riot
  • Union troops and slaves
  • profile. Harriet Tubman
  • Refugees
  • Black people and the Confederacy
  • Skilled and unskilled slaves in Southern industry
  • The impressment of Black people
  • Confederates enslave free Black people
  • Black Confederates
  • Personal servants
  • Black men fighting for the South
  • Black opposition to the Confederacy
  • The Confederate debate on Black troops
  • 12. The meaning of freedom : the promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868
  • The end of slavery
  • Differing reactions of former slaves
  • Reuniting Black families
  • Land
  • Special field order #15
  • The Port Royal experiment
  • The Freedmen's Bureau
  • Southern Homestead Act
  • voices. A Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner tells freed people what freedom means
  • Sharecropping
  • The Black Church
  • Education
  • Black teachers
  • Black colleges
  • Response of White Southerners
  • Violence
  • profile. Charlotte E. Ray
  • The crusade for political and civil rights
  • Presidential reconstruction under Andrew Johnson
  • voices. A Northern Black woman on teaching Freedman
  • Black codes
  • Black conventions
  • profile. Aaron A. Bradley
  • The radical Republicans
  • Radical proposals
  • The Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the Civil Rights Bill
  • Johnson's vetoes
  • The Fourteenth Amendment
  • Radical reconstruction
  • Universal manhood suffrage
  • Black politics
  • Sit-ins and strikes
  • The reaction of White Southerners
  • visualizing the past. HIgher education for African Americans begins
  • 13. The meaning of freedom : the failure of Reconstruction, 1868-1877
  • Constitutional conventions
  • Elections
  • Black political leaders
  • The issues
  • Education and social welfare
  • Civil rights
  • Economic issues
  • profile. The Gibbs brothers
  • Land
  • Business and industry
  • Black politicians : an evaluation
  • Republican factionalism
  • Opposition
  • The Ku Klux Klan
  • profile. The Rollin sisters
  • The West
  • voices. An appeal for help against the Klan
  • The Fifteenth Amendment
  • The Enforcement Acts
  • The North and Reconstruction
  • voices. Black leaders support the passage of a Civil Rights Act
  • The Freedmen's Bank
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1875
  • The end of Reconstruction
  • Violent redemption
  • The shotgun policy
  • The Hamburg Massacre
  • the "Compromise" of 1877
  • roots of culture. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, sketches of Southern life
  • pt. 4. Searching for safe spaces
  • 14. White supremacy triumphant : African Americans in the late nineteenth century, 1877-1895
  • Politics
  • Black Congressmen
  • Democrats and farmer discontent
  • The Colored Farmers' Alliance
  • The Populist Party
  • Disenfranchisement
  • Evading the fifteenth amendment
  • Mississippi
  • South Carolina
  • The Grandfather Clause
  • The "force bill"
  • Segregation
  • Jim Crow
  • Segregation on the railroads
  • Plessy V. Ferguson
  • Streetcar segregation
  • Segregation proliferates
  • voices. Majority and dissenting opinions on Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Racial etiquette
  • Violence
  • Washington County, Texas
  • The Phoenix riot
  • The Wilmington riot
  • The New Orleans riot
  • Lynching
  • Rape
  • profile. Ida Wells Barnett
  • Migration
  • The Liberian exodus
  • The exodusters
  • Migration within the South
  • Black farm families
  • Cultivating cotton
  • Sharecroppers
  • Renters
  • Crop liens
  • Peonage
  • Black landowners
  • White resentment of Black success
  • African Americans and Southern courts
  • Segregated justice
  • voices. Cash and debt for the Black cotton farmer
  • profile. Johnson C. Whittaker
  • The convict lease system
  • visualizing the past. Going back to Africa
  • 15. African Americans challenge White Supremacy, 1877-1918
  • Social Darwinism
  • Education and schools
  • Segregated schools
  • The Hampton model
  • Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee model
  • voices. Thomas E. Miller and the mission of the Black land-grant college
  • Critics of the Tuskegee model
  • Church and religion
  • the Church as solace and escape
  • The holiness movement and the Pentecostal Church
  • Roman Catholics and Episcopalians
  • profile. Henry McNeal Turner
  • Red versus Black : the Buffalo soldiers
  • Discrimination in the army
  • The Buffalo soldiers in combat
  • Civilian hostility to Black soldiers
  • Brownsville
  • African Americans in the navy
  • The Black cowboys
  • The Spanish-American War
  • Black offices
  • "A splendid little war"
  • voices. Black men in battle in Cuba
  • After the war
  • The Philippine insurrection
  • Would Black men fight brown men?
  • African Americans and the world's Columbian Exposition
  • Black businesspeople and entrepreneurs
  • African Americans and labor
  • Unions
  • profile. Maggie Lena Walker
  • Strikes
  • Black professionals
  • Medicine
  • The law
  • profile. A man and his horse : Dr. William Key and Beautiful Jim Key
  • Music
  • Ragtime
  • Jazz
  • The blues
  • Sports
  • Jack Johnson
  • Baseball
  • Basketball and other sports
  • College athletics
  • 16. Conciliation, agitation, and migration : African Americans in the early twentieth century, 1895-1928
  • Race and the progressive movement
  • Booker T. Washington's approach
  • Washington's influence
  • The Tuskegee machine
  • Opposition
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • voices. W.E.B. Du Bois on being Black in America
  • The Souls of Black Folk
  • The talented tenth
  • The Niagra movement
  • The NAACP
  • Using the system
  • Du Bois and the Crisis
  • Washington versus the NAACP
  • profile. Mary Church Terrell
  • The Urban League
  • Black women and the club movement
  • The NACW : "Lifting as we climb"
  • Phillis Wheatley clubs
  • Anna Julia Cooper and Black feminism
  • Women's suffrage
  • The Black elite
  • profile. Jane Edna Hunter and the Phillis Wheatley Association
  • The American Negro Academy
  • The upper class
  • Fraternities and sororities
  • African-American inventors
  • Presidential politics
  • Frustrated by the Republicans
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Black men and the military in World War I
  • The punitive expedition to Mexico
  • profile. George Washington Carver and Ernest Everett Just
  • World War I
  • Black troops and officers
  • Discrimination and its effects
  • Du Bois's disappointment
  • Race riots
  • Atlanta, 1906
  • Springfield, 1908
  • East St. Louis, 1917
  • Houston, 1917
  • Chicago, 1919
  • Elaine, 1919
  • Tulsa, 1921
  • Rosewood, 1923
  • The Great MIgration
  • Why migrate?
  • Destinations
  • voices. A migrant to the North writes home
  • Migration from the Caribbean
  • Northern communities
  • Chicago
  • Harlem
  • Families
  • roots of culture. The photography of James Van Der Zee
  • 17. African Americans and the 1920s, 1918-1929
  • Strikes and the Red Scare
  • Varieties of racism
  • Scientific racism
  • The Birth of a nation
  • The Ku Klux Klan
  • Protest, pride, and Pan-Africanism : Black organizations in the 1920s
  • The NAACP
  • voices. The Negro National Anthem : "Lift every voice and sing"
  • "Up you mighty race" : Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
  • profile. James Weldon Johnson
  • The African Blood Brotherhood
  • Pan-Africanism
  • voices. Marcus Garvey appeals for a new African nation
  • Labor
  • The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
  • A. Philip Randolph
  • The Harlem Renaissance
  • Before Harlem
  • Writers and artists
  • White people and the Harlem Renaissance
  • Harlem and the jazz age
  • Song, dance, and stage
  • profile. Bessie Smith
  • Sports
  • Rube Foster
  • College sports
  • pt. 4. The Great Depression and World War II
  • 18. Black protest, the Great Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1940
  • The cataclysm, 1929-1933
  • Harder times for Black America
  • Black businesses in the Depression : collapse and survival
  • The failure of relief
  • Black protest during the Great Depression
  • The NAACP and civil rights struggles
  • Du Bois ignites a controversy
  • Challenging racial discrimination in the courts
  • Black women and community organizing
  • African Americans and the New Deal
  • Roosevelt and the first new Deal, 1933-1935
  • Black officials in the New Deal
  • The rise of Black social scientists
  • Social scientists and the New Deal
  • profile. Robert C. Weaver
  • African Americans and the second New Deal
  • voices. A Black sharecropper details abuse in the Administration of Agricultural Relief
  • profile. Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Organized labor and Black America
  • voices. A. Philip Randolph inspires a young Black activist
  • The Communist party and African Americans
  • The international labor defense and the "Scottsboro Boys"
  • profile. Angelo Herndon
  • Debating Communist leadership
  • The National Negro Congress
  • Misuses of medical science : the Tuskegee Study
  • voices. Hoboing in Alabama
  • 19. Meanings of freedom : culture and society in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, 1930-1950
  • Black culture in a midwestern city
  • The Black culture industry and American racism
  • The music culture from swing to bebop
  • Popular culture for the masses : comic strips, radio, and movies
  • The comics
  • profile. Charlie Parker
  • Radio and jazz musicians and technological change
  • Radio and Black disc jockeys
  • Radio and race
  • Radio and Destination Freedom
  • Race, representation, and the movies
  • The Black Chicago Renaissance
  • profile. Langston Hughes
  • voices. Margaret Walker on Black culture
  • Gospel in Chicago : Thomas Dorsey
  • Chicago in dance and song : Katherine Dunham and Billie Holiday
  • Black visual art
  • Black literature
  • Richard Wright's Native Son
  • profile. Billie Holiday and "Strange fruit"
  • James Baldwin challenges Wright
  • Ralph Ellison and Invisible man
  • African Americans in sports
  • Jesse Owens and Joe Louis
  • Breaking the color barrier in baseball
  • Black religious culture
  • The Nation of Islam
  • Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement
  • roots of culture. Katherine Dunham
  • 20. The World War II era and the seeds of a revolution, 1936-1948
  • On the eve of war, 1936-1941
  • African Americans and the emerging world crisis
  • A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington movement
  • Executive Order 8802
  • Race and the U.S. Armed Forces
  • profile. Steven Robinson and the Montford Point Marines
  • Institutional racism in the American military
  • The costs of military discrimination
  • Soldiers and civilians protest military discrimination
  • voices. William H. Hastie resigns in protest
  • Black women in the struggle to desegregate the military
  • The beginning of military desegregation
  • voices. Separate but equal training for Black Army nurses?
  • profile. Mabel K. Staupers
  • voices. A Tuskegee Airman remembers
  • The Tuskegee Airmen
  • Technology : the Tuskegee planes
  • The transformation of Black soldiers
  • Black people on the home front
  • Black workers : from farm to factory
  • The Fepc during the war
  • Anatomy of a race riot : Detroit, 1943
  • The G.I. Bill of Rights and Black veterans
  • Old and new protest groups on the home front
  • profile. Bayard Rustin
  • The transition to peace
  • The Cold War and international politics
  • African Americans in world affairs : W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Bunche
  • Anticommunism at home
  • Paul Robeson
  • Henry Wallace and the 1948 Presidential election
  • Desegregating the Armed Forces
  • visualizing the past. African-American soldiers in World War II
  • pt. 6. The Black revolution
  • 21. The freedom movement, 1950-1965
  • The 1950s : prosperity and prejudice
  • The road to Brown
  • Constance Baker Motley and Black lawyers in the South
  • Brown and the coming revolution
  • Brown II
  • Massive White resistance
  • The lynching of Emmett Till
  • voices. Letter of the Montgomery Women's Political Council to Mayor W.A. Gayle
  • New forms of protest : the Montgomery bus boycott
  • The roots of revolution
  • Rosa Parks
  • Montgomery Improvement Association
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • profile. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
  • Walking for freedom
  • Friends in the North
  • Victory
  • No easy road to freedom : 1957-1960
  • Martin Luther King and the SCLC
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957
  • Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Black youth stand up by sitting down
  • Sit-ins : Greensboro, Nashville, Atlanta
  • The Student Non-violence Coordinating Committee
  • Freedom Rides
  • profile. Robert Parris Moses
  • A sight to be seen : the movement at high tide
  • The election of 1960
  • The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
  • Voter registration projects
  • The Albany movement
  • profile. Fannie Lou Hamer
  • The Birmingham confrontation
  • A hard victory
  • The march on Washington
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  • Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • profile. Dorothy Irene Height
  • roots of culture. Freedom singers
  • 22. Black nationalism, Black power, Black arts, 1965-1980
  • The fading dream of racial integration : Black nationalism
  • Malcolm X
  • Stokely Carmichael and Black power
  • The National Council of Churches
  • The Black Panther Party
  • Police repression and the FBI's Cointelpro
  • voices. The Black Panther Party platform
  • Prisoner's rights
  • The inner-city rebellions
  • Watts
  • Newark
  • Detroit
  • The Kerner Commission
  • Difficulties in creating the Great Society
  • Johnson and the war in Vietnam
  • Black Americans and the Vietnam War
  • Project 100,000
  • Johnson : Vietnam destroys the Great Society
  • voices. They called each other "Bloods"
  • King : searching for a new strategy
  • profile. Muhammad Ali
  • King on the Vietnam War
  • King's murder
  • The Black arts movement and Black consciousness
  • Poetry and theater
  • profile. Lorraine Hansberry
  • Music
  • The second phase of the Black student movement
  • The Orangeburg massacre
  • Black studies
  • The election of 1968
  • The Nixon presidency
  • The "Moynihan report" and FAP
  • Busing
  • Nixon and the war
  • Nixon's downfall
  • The rise of Black elected officials
  • The Gary Convention and the Black political agenda
  • Shirley Chisholm : "I am the people's politician"
  • Black people gain local offices
  • Economic downturn
  • Black Americans and the Carter presidency
  • Black appointees
  • voices. Shirley Chisholm's speech to the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Carter's domestic policies
  • visualizing the past. Signs of protest in the struggle for equality
  • 23. African Americans at the millennium, 1980-2010
  • Progress and poverty : income, education, and health
  • High-achieving African Americans
  • African Americans' growing economic security
  • profile. Mark Dean's computer inventions
  • The persistence of Black poverty
  • Impact of the 2008-2010 economic recession on employed Black women
  • Racial incarceration
  • Education one-half century after Brown
  • Challenging Brown
  • The health gap
  • African Americans at the center of art and culture
  • profile. Michael Jackson : Man in the mirror
  • The hip-hop nation
  • Origins of a new music : a generation defines itself
  • Rap music goes mainstream
  • Gangsta rap
  • African-American intellectuals
  • Afrocentricity
  • African-American studies matures
  • Black religion at the dawn of the millennium
  • Black Christians on the front line
  • Tensions in the Black Church
  • Black Muslims
  • Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
  • Millennium marches
  • Complicating Black identity in the twenty-first century
  • Immigration and African Americans
  • Black feminism
  • voices. E. Lynn Harris
  • Gay and lesbian African Americans
  • 24. The triumph of Black politics : 1980 to the present, 1980-2010
  • Ronald Reagan and the conservative reaction
  • Dismantling the Great Society
  • Black conservatives
  • The Thomas-Hill controversy
  • Debating the "Old" and the "New" civil rights
  • voices. Black women in defense of themselves
  • Affirmative action
  • The backlash
  • Black political activism in the age of conservative reaction
  • The King Holiday
  • Transafrica and the antiapartheid movement
  • Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition
  • Policing the Black community
  • Human rights in America
  • The Clinton presidency
  • "It's the economy, stupid!"
  • Clinton signs the Welfare Reform Act
  • Republicans challenge Clinton
  • Black politics in the new millennium : the contested 2000 Presidential Election
  • Gore v. Bush
  • Republican triumph
  • George W. Bush's Black cabinet
  • Education reform : No Child Left Behind
  • Reparations
  • September 11, 2001
  • War
  • The 2004 Presidential Election
  • Bush's second term
  • The Iraq War
  • Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of Black New Orleans
  • Barack Obama, President of the United States
  • Obama versus McCain
  • profile. Barack Obama
  • 2008 election results
  • profile. Michelle Lavaghn Robinson Obama
  • Epilogue. "A nation within a nation"
  • Appendix
  • Glossary of key terms and concepts
  • Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States
  • Historically Black four-year colleges and universities
  • Photo and text credits
  • Index.

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