To Make Our World Anew

Description

The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today’s black
filmmakers and politicians. This second volume covers the crucial post-Reconstruction years and traces the migration of blacks to the major cities. It describes the remarkable birth of the Harlem Renaissance, the hardships of the Great Depression, and the service of African Americans in World War
II. Readers witness the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and ’60s and finally, the emergence of today’s black middle class. Here is a panoramic view of African-American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African
Americans have experienced it.

“First rate…. Readable…. Guarantee[s] the book a rating as a primary reference.”–The Richmond Times-Dispatch“Kelley and Lewis have provided us with what amounts to the first new interpretation of African-American history for the twenty-first century…. They have raised the bar for the production of new work on African Americans.”–Journal of Southern History“Sweeping in scope, this invaluable survey charts the transformation of Blacks from Africans into African Americans.”–Emerge“Provides an intelligent introduction to the history’s intricacies, divisions and accomplishments.”–Publishers Weekly
Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of African-American Studies at Columbia University and author of several books, most recently Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. He lives in New York City. Earl Lewis is Provost and the Asa G. Candler Professor of History and African-American Studies at
Emory University. He is the author of several books including In Their Own Interests, Love On Trial (with Heidi Ardizzone) and Defending Diversity (with Patricia Gurin and Jeffrey Lehman). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.