The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Berlin, Ira

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143118794)

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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Berlin, Ira

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

$17.00
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Berlin, Ira

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience.

In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's most distinguished historians, offers a revolutionary-and sure to be controversial-new view of African American history. In The Making of African America, Berlin challenges the traditional presentation of a linear, progressive history from slavery to freedom. Instead, he puts forth the idea that four great migrations, between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, lie at the heart of black American culture and its development. With an engrossing, accessible narrative, Berlin traces the transit from Africa to America, Virginia to Alabama, Biloxi to Chicago, Lagos to the Bronx, and in the process finds the essence of black American life.

Author: Ira Berlin
ISBN-10: 014311879X
ISBN-13: 9780143118794
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/05/2011 pg. 20
By Ira Berlin
By Ira Berlin
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Ira Berlin is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. His many books include The Making of African America and Many Thousands Gone, winner of the Bancroft Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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