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Description
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (Second Edition) gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework. It offers sound interdisciplinary analysis of selected historical and contemporary issues surrounding the origins and manifestations of White supremacy in the United States. By placing race at the center of the work, the book offers significant lessons for understanding the institutional marginalization of Blacks in contemporary America and their historical resistance and perseverance.
ISBN
978-1-7343289-1-2
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Encompass Digital Archive, Eastern Kentucky University
City
Richmond
Subjects
African American studies, history, cultures, marginalization, politics, family, artistic expressiveness, sexuality, health, religious and philosophical worldviews, AFA 202
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Joshua Farrington, Norman W. Powell, Gwen Graham, Lisa Day, & Ogechi E. Anyanwu, eds., Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience, 2nd ed. (Richmond, Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky University, 2022).
Comments
This second edition provides an even more thorough overview of the African American experience by covering topics such as music, intersectional feminism, Black Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism.
Editions and funding
This open textbook was originally published in 2019.
The first edition can be found here: https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/1
Publication of this open access textbook was made possible by EKU Libraries.