Freedom on My Mind, Volume One by Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo Martin Jr. - Third Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume One

Third  Edition©2021  Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo Martin Jr.

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An essential volume for all who care about the black freedom struggle　

Freedom on My Mind records the paradoxical experiences of African Americans, who are at once central to the creation of our nation — ​in terms of their long history in America, their vital role in the American economy, and their enormous impact on American culture — ​and at the same time consistently denied access to the American dream. Juxtaposed against American history as a whole, this is a study of people who have had to fight too hard for freedom yet have been systematically excluded from many of the opportunities that allowed other groups to experience the United States as a land of opportunity. This text will give you the resources to think critically and analytically about African American history and the historical realities behind the American dream.

Table of Contents

NEW! 1. African Origins, Beginnings to ca. 1600 C.E.

2. From Africa to America, 1441-1808  

3. Slavery in North America, 1619–1740 

4. African Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1741–1783

5. Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic, 1775–1820 

6. Black Life in the Slave South, 1820–1860  

7. The Northern Black Freedom Struggle and the Coming of the Civil War, 1830–1860  

8. Freedom Rising: The Civil War, 1861–1865  

9. Reconstruction: The Making and Unmaking of a Revolution, 1865–1877

 

Deborah Gray White

Deborah Gray White (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of many works including Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March; Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994; Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South; and the edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. She is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship. She holds the Carter G. Woodson Medallion and the Frederick Douglass Medal for excellence in African American history. She currently co-directs the “Scarlet and Black Project” which investigates Native Americans and African Americans in the history of Rutgers University. With Professor Marisa Fuentes she is editor of Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, and with Fuentes and Professor Kendra Boyd, Scarlet and Black: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945.

Mia Bay

Mia Bay (Ph.D., Yale University) is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells; The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925; and the edited volume Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth: The Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader. She is a recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship and the National Humanities Center Fellowship. An Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, Bay is a member of the executive board of the Society of American Historians and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of African American History and the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives Blog. Currently, she is at work on a book examining the social history of segregated transportation and a study of African American views on Thomas Jefferson.

Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America; Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents; The Mind of Frederick Douglass; and, with Joshua Bloom, the coauthor of Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. With Patricia A. Sullivan, he serves as coeditor of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Current projects include a forthcoming book on the impact of black cultural politics on the modern black freedom struggle.