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Holloway, Jonathan Scott, author.
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African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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African American history : a very short introduction / Jonathan Scott Holloway.
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Holloway, Jonathan Scott, author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects
African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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9780190915155 (paperback) :
0190915153 (paperback)
9780190915186
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Very short introductions.
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152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Contents:
Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America -- Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War -- War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered -- Civilization, race, and the politics of uplift -- The making of the modern Civil Rights Movement(s) -- The paradoxes of post-civil rights America -- Stony the road we trod.
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"What does it mean to be an American? African American history illuminates the United States' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This Very Short Introduction narrates the creation of racialized chattel slavery, the dismantling of that system during the Civil War, and the civil rights disputes that have erupted in the years since Emancipation, including the Black Lives Matter movement. Author Jonathan Scott Holloway illustrates American citizens' willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equal"--
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
973.0496 Ho
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973.0496 Ho
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