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001 2009028366
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005 20100625111528.0
008 090710s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aE185$b.B473 2010
082 00 $a973/.0496073$222
100 1 $aBerlin, Ira,$d1941-
245 14 $aThe making of African America :$bthe four great migrations /$cIra Berlin.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2010.
300 $a304 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aFour great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xHistory.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xMigrations$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zAtlantic Ocean$xHistory.
650 0 $aMigration, Internal$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2009028366-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2009028366-d.html