by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Knopf, 2011
New Book Shelf: E185 G27 2011
"In this work, the author 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, this book focuses on defining events,
debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous
and obscure. The author 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, he bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single 'Black Experience.'" review from publisher
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