Presents an introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.

"For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent...

"In the rush to redefine the place of black Americans in contemporary society, many radical activists and academics have mounted a campaign to destroy traditional American history and replace it with a politicized version that few would recognize. According to the new radical orthodoxy, the United States was founded as a racist nation--and everything that has happened throughout our history must be viewed through the lens of the systemic oppression...

A landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors and the sixteenth century, through the ordeal of slavery and the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration through the civil rights and black nationalist movements and the age of hip-hop to the Joshua generation and the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in September 2016, is the realization of the dream, centuries-long, of creating a public monument to the vital role of African Americans have played in shaping our nation. Dream A World Anew uses objects and stories from this museum, unprecedented, to take readers on a journey through the African American experience. This book presents the sweeping history of Black America:...

The New Deciders presents surprising numbers and the gripping real-life stories behind population change, demonstrating how demography becomes destiny for politics in the 2016 election and beyond.

"A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"-how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvor©Łk prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold...