Black New Jersey

1664 to the Present Day

Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

380 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9518-4 (ISBN)

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Tells the rich and complex story of the African American community's remarkable accomplishments and the colossal obstacles they faced along the way. Drawing from rare archives, Graham Russell Gao Hodges brings to life the courageous black men and women who fought for their freedom and eventually built a sturdy and substantial middle class.

Winner of the 2019 Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Commission

Black New Jersey tells the rich and complex story of the African American community's remarkable accomplishments and the colossal obstacles they faced along the way. Drawing from rare archives, historian Graham Russell Gao Hodges brings to life the courageous black men and women who fought for their freedom and eventually built a sturdy and substantial middle class. He explores how the state's unique mix of religious, artistic, and cultural traditions have helped to produce such world-renowned figures as Paul Robeson, Cory Booker, and Queen Latifah, as well as a host of lesser-known but equally influential New Jersey natives.

GRAHAM RUSSELL GAO HODGES is the George Dorland Langdon, Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1660-1870 and Root & Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863.

C O N T E N T S
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction 1
1 From Initial Euro-African Settlement to the Pre-Revolution, 1625–1763 12
2 From Revolution to Gradual Emancipation, 1764–1804 34
3 Slavery, Freedom, and Struggle, 1804–1860 59
4 The Civil War and Reconstruction to World War I 98
5 Black New Jersey Battles Jim Crow, 1918–1940 159
6 World War II and Its Aftermath, 1940–1960 211
7 The 1960s–2014 249
8 Present and Future 291
Acknowledgments 301
Notes 303
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	20 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-9518-5 / 0813595185
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9518-4 / 9780813595184
Zustand	Neuware