African American



African American

Afro-Americans historiography, with its own conceptual and methodological concerns, is now poised to illuminate the Afro-American past in a manner that will broaden and deepen our knowledge of black people in the country. The history of Afro-Americans is no longer undertaken principally to revise the work of wrongheaded white historians, to discern divine providence. In order to show black participation in the nation's growth and development, to prove the inevitability of black equality, or to demonstrate the inexorable progress made by Afro-Americans. It is conducted as a distinct area of inquiry, within the discipline of history, with ...