The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations - Paperback

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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations - Paperback

Name: The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations - Paperback
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by Ira Berlin

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by Ira Berlin (Author)

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 Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 320

Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN

Publication Date: December 28, 2010

ISBN	9780143118794
Author	Ira Berlin
Publisher	Penguin Publishing Group
Genre	History and Education
Format	Paperback
Published	December 2010
Language	ENG- English
Pages	320
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print