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Becoming African in America
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: James Sidbury
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury re
Becoming African Americans
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Clare Corbould
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-31 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked
Becoming Black
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Michelle M. Wright
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, Fra
Becoming American
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Howard Dodson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role that people of African descent have played in shaping the US and the world. Even less is k
Becoming America
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Jon Butler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-12-28 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here ar