African American History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780872291980)

Kevin Gaines is the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century (1996), winner of the John Hope Franklin Book Prize of the American Studies Association, and American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (2006). He was president of the American Studies Association in 2009-10.