Imagining Black America

by Michael Wayne

Book Overview

A fascinating and challenging inquiry into black identity and its shifting meaning throughout U.S. history Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America , Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama's reelection. Races have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300197810
• ISBN13: 9780300197815
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 9.4"