Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Donald Yacovone brilliantly recount the story of people of African descent in mainland North America across some five centuries with deep knowledge of the evolution of the African American experience and great sensitivity to its complexity. The subject field is required. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Please try again. Few accounts better capture the changing texture of black life, as black men and women remade their society on new ground.". Learn more ››. Please enter the subject. The E-mail message field is required. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/778425887> ; http:\/\/purl.oclc.org\/dataset\/WorldCat> ; Copyright © 2001-2020 OCLC. He was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, to Ebony’s Power 150 list in 2009, and to Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012. Something went wrong. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of W.E.B. He was an editor at the Black Abolitionist Papers project before becoming the senior associate editor at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where he founded and edited The Massachusetts Historical Review and organized many public history programs in the Boston area. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Donald Yacovone brilliantly recount the story of people of African descent in mainland North America across some five centuries with deep knowledge of the evolution of the African American experience and great sensitivity to its complexity. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six hour documentary of the same name, airing on national, primetime public television in the fall of 2013. 0 with reviews - Be the first. He is the author of 16 books, including Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513–2008 and Tradition and the Black Atlantic, and has made 12 documentaries, including Finding Your Roots, Black in Latin America, and Looking for Lincoln. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es). "— Ira Berlin, professor, University of Maryland, and the author of Making African America: Four Great Migrations"THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS is an ambitious and original book and the companion to the documentary film that demonstrates how thoroughly North America, and what became the United States, has been shaped by four centuries of African American experience on these shores, in our fields and cities, and in our legislative halls. Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events. You may send this item to up to five recipients. OCLC’s WebJunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus issues in their communities. There was a problem loading your book clubs. We are all the products of the slavery and the freedom that this film series presents. Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is available from the World Health Organization (current situation, international travel). "— David W. Blight, professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition, Yale University; and the author of a forthcoming new biography of Frederick Douglass"Vibrant, immersive, and irresistible—abounding in rich scholarship and throbbing with the energy of a story waiting too long to be told—this priceless volume fills a gaping void in the literature: a comprehensive yet compact history of the African American experience. The authors’ deep love of the African American experience has led to a detailed, nuanced, important, and fresh examination of our history. The road to freedom for black people in America has not been linear; rather, much like the course of a river, it has been full of loops and eddies, slowing and occasionally reversing current. Donald Yacovone, the research manager at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W. E. B. Please enter the message. Few accounts better capture the changing texture of black life, as black men and women remade their society on new ground. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to today—when Barack Obama is serving his second term as President, yet our country remains deeply divided by race and class.The book explores these topics in even more detail than possible in the television series, and examines many other fascinating matters as well, such as the ethnic origins—and the regional and cultural diversity—of the Africans whose enslavement led to the creation of the African American people. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway. The African Americans : many rivers to cross. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root, a daily online magazine. Would you also like to submit a review for this item? 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Our language, our migrations, our music, our art and poetry, the ways we walk and talk, our dreams and nightmares, our social movements, the great pivots and changes in our political and constitutional history, our very imaginations as Americans are forever products of the African American stories flowing through our bloodstreams and moving across our landscapes. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Get this from a library! The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Please try again. Please try your request again later. Told with urgency and authority by major scholars who also happen to be gifted craftsmen, here is popular history writing at its best. There's a problem loading this menu right now. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. With no disrespect to its genesis via another of Gates’s essential television documentaries, this is no more a ‘companion’ volume than black history is a ‘companion’ to American history. Please try again. Image provided by: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM. ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. # The African Americans : many rivers to cross\n, Africans in the Americas, 1500-1540 -- The worlds slavery made, 1526-1763 -- The age of revolutions, 1700-1811 -- Half slave, half free, 1797-1858 -- The war to end slavery, 1859-1865 -- Reconstruction and redemption, 1865-1900 -- The nadir and the renaissance, 1890-1940 -- Rise! Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Du Bois Institute, earned his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School and has taught at Pitzer College, the University of Arizona, and Millersville University of Pennsylvania. You can easily create a free account. [Henry Louis Gates, Jr.] -- "A companion book to the six-part, six-hour PBS series of the same title, airing for the first time on national, prime-time broadcast in the Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. An expert in Victorian manhood, the antislavery movement, and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, he has published six books, including Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion; A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens; and most recently, Lincoln on Race and Slavery, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. It delves into the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives that African Americans have created in the half a millennium since their African ancestors first arrived on these shores. In 1981, he was a member of the first class awarded "genius grants" by the MacArthur Foundation, and in 1998, he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select. All rights reserved. 1st edition Carlsbad, California : SmileyBooks, 2013.