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Using a sociological, historical, and psychological approach, this
work offers a multidisciplinary perspective and fills the research
gap about the Harlem community and urban black life during the Jazz
Age and the Great Depression. This book proposes that Harlem was an
intricate domain of competing ideologies, needs, and interests
wherein there were many cross-cutting forms of power and exclusion.
Such competition placed the community at the intersection of
complicated power relations in which local, citywide and nationwide
power, policies, and commitments overlapped. Changing economic
circumstances that characterized the interwar period combined with
the shifting municipal politics including community reliance on
government support and the political strength of medical societies
that left Harlem residents politically and economically
circumscribed in their efforts to build and fortify institutions
focused on maintaining community wellness. In this larger
circumscription, citywide, statewide, and nationwide politics made
health for black people a politicized affair during the early
twentieth century. This work further reveals that in conjunction
with the political economy of race, health was a major issue of
debate that residents of Harlem could enter into despite systematic
efforts by politicians and medical professionals to simultaneously
limit residents' political agency and regulate health services and
institutions in New York City. Such fissures and cracks within the
political structure allowed for community engagement and
empowerment. This study provides for a more comprehensive
understanding of the connections among black morbidity, mortality,
health-care delivery, and black political engagement in Harlem, New
York, and aims to expand the historical understanding of race and
politics, as well as the lived experiences of black people in New
York City in the early twentieth century. As a scholarly work in
the field of African American urban history, Building a Healthy
Black Harlem is accessible to upper-division undergraduate and
graduate students in courses in post-1865 United States history,
African American history, and urban history. It also possesses the
insight and rigor for specialists in the field of New York City
history and African American urban history.
This two-volume work celebrates 50 notable achievements of African
Americans, highlighting black contributions to U.S. history and
examining the ways black accomplishments shaped American culture.
This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique look at the African
American experience, from the arrival of the first 20 Africans at
Jamestown through the launch of the Black Lives Matter movement and
the Ferguson Protests. It illustrates subjects such as the Jim Crow
period, the Brown v. Board of Education case that overturned
segregation, Jackie Robinson's landmark integration of major league
baseball, and the election of Barack Obama as president of the
United States. Drawing from almost 400 years of U.S. history, the
work documents the experiences and impact of black people on every
aspect of American life. Presented chronologically, the selected
events each include at least one primary source to provide the
reader with a first-person perspective. These range from excerpts
of speeches given by famous African American figures, to programs
from the March on Washington. The remarkable stories collected here
bear witness to the strength of a group of people who chose to
survive and found ways to work collectively to force America to
live up to the promise of its founding. Chronicles almost 400 years
of African American history beginning with the arrival of 20
Africans into Jamestown, VA, and ending with the 2014 Ferguson
Protests Provides readers with an understanding of key events that
represent the African American experience Brings the featured
events to life using first-person accounts, essays, primary
sources, photographs, and timelines Demonstrates the broad
influence and impact of African Americans on history, the arts,
laws, sports, literature, film, television, and social movements
This compact volume offers a compelling introduction to a group
once deemed the greatest threat to the internal security of the
United States, the Black Panther Party. In a time when African
Americans' widespread tactic of direct, nonviolent protest was seen
as the most effective way to fight for racial justice, the Black
Panthers' confrontational style and critiques of local law
enforcement throughout the nation defied both civil rights
orthodoxy and white authority. The Black Panther Party: A Guide to
an American Subculture situates the Black Panther Party within the
shifting political terrain of the African American freedom struggle
of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In an era when African Americans
were assumed to have secured their basic constitutional rights, the
Black Panther Party stood firm to remind black people and the
nation that despite the gains of the Civil Rights Movement, social,
economic, and political equality had not been achieved for large
segments of African Americans, and that more needed to be done
locally and nationally. Organized geographically, the book examines
Black Panther Party chapters and affiliates throughout the United
States. It covers the Panthers' most important developments and
challenges, paying particular attention to local realities as they
varied throughout the nation-from Oakland, California to New Haven,
Connecticut. Synthesizes the latest scholarship on the Black
Panther Party Explains topics clearly and in accessible language
Offers a compelling narrative that examines in depth the breadth of
Black Panther Party politics and political activity Examines the
ways in which the Black Panther Party has been depicted in popular
culture, including in films and in hip-hop culture Includes
biographical sketches of the most significant Panther members,
along with a selection of primary documents
This book gives readers a comprehensive introduction to the topic
of the Civil Rights Movement-arguably the most important political
movement of the 20th century-and provides a road map for future
study and historical inquiry. Civil Rights Movement provides a
comprehensive reference guide to this momentous cultural evolution
that starts in the 1930s. By beginning the story of how African
Americans have long attempted to improve their lives while facing
severe legislative, judicial, and political constraints, the author
dispels the common misconception that black people only started
their struggle to achieve equality in the mid 1950s. The book
discusses all of the major campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s within
the deep southern states, border states, and northern urban areas,
thereby demonstrating that the African American struggle for
equality was not solely in the South. Supplying a synthesis of the
latest historical research and providing an accessible historical
narrative of one of the most fascinating and inspiring periods of
United States history, the book is appropriate for high-school
students and general readers. Judicial victories significant to the
movement and the shift in the portrayal of African Americans on
television and in film are also addressed. Provides a chronology
that traces the unfolding of the subject of movement over time
Features biographical profiles of the people and organizations
central to the movement Contains a selection of primary documents
that provide readers with a fuller understanding of the subject
Includes an annotated bibliography that assesses the most important
print, electronic, and media resources suitable for high school
student research
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