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"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 eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the 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 on 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"--
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African American influences, African Americans, Civilization, Pictorial works, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, History, African American Studies, General, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Schwarze, Cultural Heritage, SOCIAL SCIENCEPlaces
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Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
2013, Knopf
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Life upon these shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008
2011, Knopf
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Life upon these shores: looking at African American history, 1500-2008
2011, Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf
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