Here is the first fulllength study to examine the changing academic debate ondevelopments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. Itprovides ... » 

Here is the first fulllength study to examine the changing academic debate ondevelopments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. Itprovides a critical historiographical review of the most current thinking andexplains how and why research and discourse have evolved in the ways that theyhave. Individual chapters focus on particular periods in African Americanhistory from the spread of racial segregation in the 1890s through to thepostwar Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of the sixties andseventies. «