Examines how scholars, activists, policy makers, and displaced working people have made sense of the contemporary ghetto

Examines African-American life at the close of World War II, describes the struggle for freedom and justice during the 1940s and 1950s, and discusses the explosive years of the 1960s.

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Presents a history of African Americans in the United States from 1970 to the present and includes information about culture, urban poverty, the black middle class, the struggle for political power, and new realities of race.

Examines day-to-day examples of resistance against discrimination, noting how slowdowns, migrations, and sabotage were done in a way that made them seem less threatening (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its “New World” descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements...read more