African American History - Paperback

by Kevin Gaines (Author)

Kevin Gaines presents an incisive overview of recent developments in the field of African American history, focusing on significant contributions such as slavery and the slave trade, segregation in both the South and North, and the longcivil rights movement.

Author Biography

Kevin Gaines is the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century (1996), winner of the John Hope Franklin Book Prize of the American Studies Association, and American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (2006). He was president of the American Studies Association in 2009-10.