Description
Book SynopsisA timely reframing of race in America
Trade Review"A penetrating look at the complicated history of race in America."--Booklist
"Well-written, thoroughly researched, and well-documented work. . . . It is an excellent text for use in any history class covering the span of events in American history as well as in any African-American history course."--
Multicultural Review"It is good to have a volume that grasps the big picture and connects the beginning with the end in a long chain of causation."--The Journal of American History
"A broad and sweeping account of race in the United States."--
North Carolina Historical Review"William McKee Evans is that rare scholar who writes clearly and well, displays an impressive grasp of the smaller facts of history, and yet can rise above the fray of footnotes to make sweeping and extraordinarily telling historical observations. This book represents the capstone of a remarkable career, and it is his most expansive and well considered work."--Timothy B. Tyson, author of
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story"In analyzing key developments and moments of crisis over nearly four hundred years, William McKee Evans brings to bear an extraordinary command not only of the established historical literature on North America, but an impressive grasp of historiography from the wider Atlantic world. The result is a surefooted, authoritative study that radically reframes an old story, drawing fresh and compelling insights from some of the most studied events in the American past."--Brian Kelly, author of
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
