Description: This comprehensive anthology of primary texts surveys the experience of Africans in America from the eighteenth century to the present. Texts from a variety of disciplines encompass history, literature, and politics, and accurately represent the expression of African America. The book also highlights the usually neglected tradition of radicalism in African American Studies. An inclusive approach features familiar texts by familiar authors, texts by authors not usually anthologized, and unfamiliar texts by familiar authors. The six-part organization of this book groups works under the headings of: New World Slavery, Black Resistance and Abolition, Reconstruction, The Jim Crow Era, Civil Rights and Black Power, and The Post-Industrial, Post-Civil Rights Era. A variety of discourses help to illuminate the world context from which African American experiences emerge.

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