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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNell Irvin Painter's Creating Black Americans is destined to become one of the most beautiful history textbooks in recent memory, with roughly 150 creative representations of the African-American experience ranging from painting and sculpture to graffiti art and quilts. Most of the images are in stunning color, some of them filling an entire page." Ron Hogan, Beatrice.com Read the entire interview at - www.beatrice.com/archives/001853.html#more ...incorporates a sweeping, historic narrative with the emotional expression of more than 150 works of African-American art. IEbony, February 2006 Nell Irvin Painter brings her considerable skills and insight to Creating Black Americans. Her excellent introduction to the black American experience will serve any interested reader well...History, the author notes, exists in both the past and present. And Painter's compelling use of black art...emphasizes this point to great effect...Through word and image, [she] has produced a narrative of African-American history that will profit its readers. Kenneth R. Janken, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the New York Post
Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Africa and Black Americans ; 2. Captives Transported, 1619-ca. 1850 ; 3. A Diasporic People, 1630-ca. 1850 ; 4. Those Who Were Free, ca. 1770-1859 ; 5. Those Who Were Enslaved, ca. ; 6. Civil War and Emancipation, 1859-1865 ; 7. The Larger Reconstruction, 1864-1896 ; 8. Hard-Working People in the Depths of Segregation, 1896-ca. 1919 ; 9. The New Negro, 1915-1932 ; 10. Radicals and Democrats, 1930-1940 ; 11. The Second World War and the Promise of ; INTERNATIONALISM, 1940-1948 ; 12. Cold War Civil Rights: 1948-1960 ; 13. Protest Makes a Civil Rights Revolution: 1960-1967 ; 14. Black Power, 1966-1980 ; 15. Authenticity and Diversity in the Era of Hip-Hop, 1980-2004 ; Epilogue: A Snapshot of African Americans at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
