A Faithful Account of the Race - African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)

This book reconstructs a lost milieu of historical writing. The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall notes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this book, Hall recaptures and reconstructs a rich but largely overlooked tradition of historical writing by African Americans. Hall charts the origins, meanings, methods, evolution, and maturation of African American historical writing from the period of the Early Republic to the twentieth-century professionalization of the larger field of historical study. He demonstrates how these works borrowed from and engaged with ideological and intellectual constructs from mainstream intellectual movements including the Englightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Hall also explores the creation of discursive spaces that simultaneously reinforced and offered counternarratives to more mainstream historical discourse. He sheds fresh light on the influence of the African diaspora on the development of historical study. In so doing, he provides a holistic portrait of African American history informed by developments within and outside the African American community.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Stephen G. Hall
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	352
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-5967-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
LSN:	0-8078-5967-2
Barcode:	9780807859674

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