Hardcover textbook, second edition, c. 2005. Volume one of this encyclopedia The Black Experience in the Americas. The study of Africa and its diaspora continues to grow to include regions outside of the US, and this revision includes not only the US but also the entire western hemisphere including Central and South America and the Caribbean. It includes biographical sketches of important individuals in the evolution of diasporic societies, events and institutions. It addresses those themes and topics critical to an understanding of the cultures, achievements, problems, challenges, and promise of the 150 million people of African heritage who inhabit the Americas in the twenty-first century.

Encyclopedia of Aftican-American Culture and History (The Black Experience in America, Volume 3: G-L)

History

Palmer, Colin A.

Americas

Thomson/Gale

The history of African Americans begins in Africa, a continent that was home to people with different languages, traditions, histories, and religions. They called themselves Twi, Yoruba, Zulu, Ashanti, and Kumba, among other names. In the early sixteenth century Europeans turned to Africa for the labor force needed to mine, cultivate, and process the bounty of natural resources in the newly colonized Americas. As many as 12 million Africans from varied ethnic backgrounds endured forced migration and enslavement. Out of their suffering was forged a new people--no longer simply Twi, Yoruba, Ashanti, or Kumba. In the Americas, they first became Africans and then African Americans. The First Passage examines the first century of the recorded black presence in the Americas. The ordeal of the Atlantic crossing gave way to the isolation and humiliation of slavery and the loss of friends and family. Some slaves attempted rebellion and escape. Others maintained as many religious and cultural traditions as possible and as the African-American population grew, forged new traditions and new ties of kinship. This history remains at the core of black life in the Americas. Colin Palmer tells a story of extraordinary suffering. But The First Passage is also a timeless lesson in endurance and survival.

The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas 1502-1617 (The ^AYoung Oxford History of African Americans)

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

Topics include from Africa to America, Slavery and Work, Slave Society and Culture, the Struggle for Freedom, etc. Chronology. Glossary. Further Reader. Index.

Passageways: An Interpretive History Of Black America

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

1st ed. Octavo. Cloth. viii, 234 pp, map, tables. Fine in a near Fine d/j. SIGNED and inscribed by the author as "Colin" and dated 1976 on the first blank end paper

Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650

Africa

Harvard University Press

1st ed. Octavo. Cloth. viii, 234 pp, map, tables. Fine in a near Fine d/j. SIGNED and inscribed by the author as "Colin" and dated 1976 on the first blank end paper

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University and wrote several books, including the classic Capitalism and Slavery. In the first scholarly biography of Williams, Colin Palmer provides insights into Williams's personality that illuminate his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and politics of the Caribbean. Palmer focuses primarily on the fourteen-year period of struggles for independence in the Anglophone Caribbean. From 1956, when Williams became the chief minister of Trinidad and Tobago, to 1970, when the Black Power-inspired February Revolution brought his administration face to face with a younger generation intellectually indebted to his revolutionary thought, Williams was at the center of most of the conflicts and challenges that defined the region. He was most aggressive in advocating the creation of a West Indies federation to help the region assert itself in international political and economic arenas. Looking at the ideas of Williams as well as those of his Caribbean and African peers, Palmer demonstrates how the development of the modern Caribbean was inextricably intertwined with the evolution of a regional anticolonial consciousness.

Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University of North Carolina Press

Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953. Informed by the first use of many British, U.S., and Guyanese archival sources, Palmer's work details Jagan's rise and fall, from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Jagan's political odyssey continued--he was reelected to the premiership in 1957--but in 1964 he fell out of power again under pressure from Guianese, British, and U.S. officials suspicious of Marxist influences on the People's Progressive Party, founded in 1950 by Jagan and his activist wife, Janet Rosenberg. But Jagan's political life was not over--after decades in the opposition, he became Guyana's president in 1992. Subtly analyzing the actual role of Marxism in Caribbean anticolonial struggles and bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, Palmer examines the often malevolent roles played by leaders at home and abroad and shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process.

The University of North Carolina Press

Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911@-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University and wrote several books, including the classic ###Capitalism and Slavery#. In the first scholarly biography of Williams, Colin Palmer provides insights into Williams's personality that illuminate his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and politics of the Caribbean.

Eric Williams and The Making of the Modern Caribbean

As Africans and descendants of slaves have sought to expand an understanding of their history, focus on the African diaspora - the global dispersal of a people and their culture - has increased. African studies have assumed a prominent place in historical scholarship, and a growing number of non-African scholars has helped revise a discipline established over several decades.

The African Diaspora (WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB MEMORIAL LECTURES)

Chambers, Douglas B.

Inikori, Joseph E.

Jalloh, Alusine

Graden, Dale T.

Texas A & M Univ Dept of

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Encyclopedia of Aftican-American Culture and History (The Black Experience in America, Volume 3: G-L)

The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas 1502-1617 (The ^AYoung Oxford History of African Americans)

The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas 1502-1617 (The ^AYoung Oxford History of African Americans)

Passageways: An Interpretive History Of Black America

Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650

Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650

Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean

Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

Eric Williams and The Making of the Modern Caribbean

The African Diaspora (WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB MEMORIAL LECTURES)