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Freedom's Racial Frontier - African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West (Paperback)
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Freedom's Racial Frontier - African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West (Paperback)
Series: Race and Culture in the American West Series
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Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West
grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come
a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West -
an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the
works collected in Freedom's Racial Frontier. Editors Herbert G.
Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack have gathered established and emerging
scholars in the field to create an anthology that links past,
current, and future generations of African American West
scholarship. The volume's sixteen chapters address the African
American experience within the framework of the West as a
multicultural frontier. The result is a fresh perspective on
western-U.S. history, centered on the significance of African
American life, culture, and social justice in almost every
trans-Mississippi state. Examining and interpreting the twentieth
century while mindful of events and developments since 2000, the
contributors focus on community formation, cultural diversity,
civil rights and black empowerment, and artistic creativity and
identity. Reflecting the dynamic evolution of new approaches and
new sites of knowledge in the field of western history, the authors
consider its interconnections with fields such as cultural studies,
literature, and sociology. Some essays deal with familiar places,
while others look at understudied sites such as Albuquerque, Oahu,
and Las Vegas, Nevada. By examining black suburbanization, the
Information Age, and gentrification in the urban West, several
authors conceive of a Third Great Migration of African Americans to
and within the West. The West revealed in Freedom's Racial Frontier
is a place where black Americans have fought - and continue to
fight - to make their idea of freedom live up to their expectations
of equality; a place where freedom is still a frontier for most
persons of African heritage.
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