Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.

Informed by the latest, sometimes prov...

Buy Now From Amazon

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.

Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images—ancient maps, fine art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters—Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the signal achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single “black experience.”

Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination.

Similar Products

1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American HistoryThe African Americans: Many Rivers to CrossCrossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American WritingThe Slave Ship: A Human HistoryAfrican Americans: Many Rivers to CrossThe African Americans: Many Rivers to CrossThe Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American CapitalismThe Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)