- Taschenbuch: 424 Seiten
- Verlag: Rutgers Univ Pr (Januar 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0813528518
- ISBN-13: 978-0813528519
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,3 x 1,5 x 0,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 449.465 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Hard Road to Freedom is an extraordinary contribution to the literature on the African American experience. The Hortons most assuredly will be compared to such influential writers on the subject as John Hope Franklin and C. Eric Lincoln. This academic yet readable work highlights the contributions and struggles of black people in the U.S. from their arrival from Africa to the new social order of the multicultural twenty-first century. The Hortons detail the Atlantic slave trade, slavery in British North America, and slavery during the age of revolution, the early republic, and the rise of cotton. Other topics include the fight against slavery, militancy and civil war, and Reconstruction and Jim Crow. The twentieth-century political and popular issues facing African Americans discussed here include populism, industrial union, the Harlem Renaissance, postwar civil rights, civil rights and black power, and conservatism and race in multicultural America. The book ends optimistically: "blacks will continue the struggle along the hard road to freedom, justice, and equality," a point that the Hortons have proved with their careful discussion, telling illustrations, and exhaustive research. Lillian Lewis
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"Hard Road to Freedom" is a comprehensive history of African Americans, from the very first settlements to the political and technological upheavals of the 21st century. In telling the story of black people in America the authors range far beyond issues of slavery to a wider tale of determined struggle, disappointment and success. James Oliver Horton and Lois Horton document the efforts of African Americans to achieve racial equality throughout all of US history, and they clearly demonstrate the contributions that African Americans have made to the country as a whole. Their copious use of primary-source materials - autobiographies, illustrations, and historical documents - brings to life this gripping tale of unquenchable courage in the face of innumerable obstacles. "Hard Road to Freedom" presents the study of black people in America as an expression of one of this nation's fundamental principles, the pursuit of liberty. The book begins with African cultures and the slave trade. Later, the Age of Revolution equivocated on the promise of freedom to African Americans - a promise raised along with the colonists' cries for liberty.The book documents African Americans' insistence that their adopted country live up to its founding principles within the context of a spatially - and racially - divided society. The Civil War did end slavery, but it brought an ambiguous and precarious freedom. The promise of Reconstruction faded into southern segregation policed by organized terrorism. In turning to the 20th century, the book highlights many images and events: attempts to create interracial alliances among farmers and industrial workers; a sophisticated cultural renaissance in northern cities; the struggles against Jim Crow among African American soldiers during World War II; southern resistance to civil rights demands; the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the Black Power movement. In the late 20th century, with most of the world's wars safely abroad, but with riots and upheavals at home, the Hortons note the political backlash that brought into power racial and economic conservatives. These politicians and lobbyists advocated a "colour blind" emphasis on individual rights in their debates with those pleading for a continual focus on racial equality. Yet there are hopeful signs.Most Americans today are aware of the nation's racial and cultural diversity, and more African Americans hold political and economic power today than ever before. There is still much more work to be done.
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super interessant und mit viel fakten voll gepackt. perfekt für hausarbeiten und prüfungsvorbereitung. oder einfach aus interesse, liest sich gut! :)
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I read a lot of late 19th century literature and this one volume history of the post-Civil War African American experience is a wonderfully accessible and concise review of this period.
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