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Keywords
- African American culture
- America
- culture
- identity
About this book
Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Roots of African-American Identity focuses on the lives of African Americans in the nominally free northern and western states. This book explores how a group of marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity that informed popular African American historical consciousness. Elizabeth Rauh Bethel examines the way in which that consciousness fueled collective efforts to claim and live a promised but undelivered democratic freedom, helping readers to understand how African Americans reformulated and perceived their collective past. Bethel also reveals how this vision of freedom and historical consciousness shaped African American participation in the Reconstruction, formed the spiritual and ideological foundation for the modern Pan-African movement, and provided the historical legacy for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Comprehensive and engaging, The Roots of African-American Identity is an absorbing account of an often overlooked part of American history.
About the author
Elizabeth Rauh Bethel is Professor of Sociology at Lander University and author of Promised Land: A Century of Life in a Negro Community and AIDS: Readings on a Global Crisis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Roots of African-American Identity
Book Subtitle: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities
Authors: NA NA
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21836-2Published: 15 January 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 242