"The two-volume set touches on virtually every aspect of African
American life and history, including entertainment, literature,
politics, religion, sports, and law. In more than 700 signed
essays, it recounts the intellectual underpinnings that defined a
people and their movements, explains actions that transformed a
nation, and describes the personalities and realities that shaped
and continue to shape the black experience in America."
*LIBRARY JOURNAL*
"In nearly 700 A-Z articles ranging from a paragraph to a few
pages, this reference work presents African Americans in
historical, cultural, and social context. And, it is this context
that sets it apart... This work gains immediacy through well-chosen
b&w photographs and through occassional and appropriate
sidebars... Even schools with African American history and culture
well represented in their reference sections should consider adding
this work. Highly Recommended."
*Library Media Connection (starred review)*
"Jaynes′s work attempts to focus on social events, ideas, and
issues of consequence that provide ′the source of continuing
cohesiveness′ allowing the world to think in terms of an ′African
American society′. . . . Jaynes′s volumes should find a place in
all secondary school and undergraduate libraries."
*Multicultural Review*
"In his introduction, Jaynes states that the objective of this
two-volume set is ‘tp provide a reference base for those interested
in obtaining information about the significant events,
institutions, and activities that have taken African Americans
along the path leading to their present positions and that have
provided the source of continuing cohesiveness that allows both
African Americans and the rest of the world to think of Americans
of African decent in the terms that justify the nomenclature
‘African American society.’. . . . This reference source will prove
useful to any African American studies collection, especially those
serving high school students and undergraduates; for serious
researchers it will be valuable as a starting point."
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