A concise, chronological format demonstrates the fascinating history of African Americans in the New World.
KWANDO M. KINSHASA is Associate Professor of Sociology, and Chair, African American Studies Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He is author of Black Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of the Civil War (forthcoming in 2006), The Man From Scottsboro: Clarence Norris and the Infamous 1931 Alabama Rape Trial, in His Own Words (1998), and Emigration vs. Assimilation: The Debate in the African American Press: 1827-1861 (1988). His research interests include 19th-Century history with particular emphasis on the sociological consequences of migration and emigration patterns within African American communities.
Kinshasa presents a compilation of events and circumstances
experienced by people of African ancestry within the American
social and political construct, from the 15th century to the early
years of the 21st century. The material is organized into chapters
by century, with each chapter subdivided into years, subject areas,
and dates. An array of experiences is inserted into 49 subject
areas, including religion, migration, slavery, war, business,
media, and education. Academic but accessible to the general
reader.
*Reference & Research Book News*
[R]ecommended for academic, and public libraries.
*Reference Reviews*
[D]esigned for high school students and public libraries as
supplemental resources, have an easy-to-use format and will prove
to be valuable research tool for students….[c]ontains primary
source sidebars, illustrations, a glossary, a bibliography that
includes print and electronic sources, and an index….Readers learn
important historical and biographical information from the
fifteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
*Multicultural Review*
[T]hese inexpensive, attractive volumes will be useful as
supplemental resources in high-school and public libraries. These
chronologies complement encyclopedia-style treatments by helping
students trace historical developments over time.
*Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin*
African American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic is
more comprehensive than most other Afro-American histories: it
examines the influence, rise and impact of waves of changes
affecting Afro American issues and community struggles, offering
chapters of detail from an Associate Professor of Sociology.
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