Imagining Black America /

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 161...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wayne, Michael, 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	African Americans > Race identity > History. Race awareness > United States > History. Race > Philosophy. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) HISTORY / Social History. United States > Race relations > History.

Table of Contents:

A word about race
Birth of a race
On immigration, citizenship, and being "not-Black"
The Negro, "incarnation of America"
Color and class
The civil rights movement
Black Power
Black Americans: a changing demographic
The "truly disadvantaged"
The "privileged class"
Reimagining America.