Selected Family Histories from the Negro History Bulletin

Selected Family Histories from the Negro History Bulletin PDF Author: Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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Selected Family Histories from the Negro History Bulletin

Selected Family Histories from the Negro History Bulletin PDF Author: Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :

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Generations Past

Generations Past PDF Author:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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This book "is a selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for researchers of Afro-American lineages. Included in this bibliography are guidebooks, bibliographies, genealogies, collective biographies, United States local histories, directories, and other works pertaining specifically to Afro-Americans. Emphasis is on books that contain information about lesser-known individuals of the nineteenth century and earlier, although Afro-American business and city directories published through 1959 are listed"--Introd.

Negro History Bulletin

Negro History Bulletin PDF Author: Carter Godwin Woodson
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Reconsidering Roots

Reconsidering Roots PDF Author: Erica L. Ball
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820350842
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The 1977 television adaptation was more than a blockbuster miniseries—it was a galvanizing national event, drawing a record-shattering viewership, earning thirty-eight Emmy nominations, and changing overnight the discourse on race, civil rights, and slavery. These essays—from emerging and established scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies—interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power in the United States and abroad. Taken together, the essays ask us to reconsider the limitations and possibilities of this work, which, although dogged by controversy, must be understood as one of the most extraordinary media events of the late twentieth century, a cultural touchstone of enduring significance. Contributors: Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, Elise Chatelain, Robert K. Chester, Clare Corbould, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Delia Mellis, Francesca Morgan, Tyler D. Parry, Martin Stollery, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, Bhekuyise Zungu

A Nation of Descendants

A Nation of Descendants PDF Author: Francesca Morgan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469664798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership—by blood or other means—to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their medical histories, biological parentage, and ethnic background. A Nation of Descendants traces Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries. Francesca Morgan examines how specific groups throughout history grappled with finding and recording their forebears, focusing on Anglo-American white, Mormon, African American, Jewish, and Native American people. Morgan also describes how individuals and researchers use genealogy for personal and scholarly purposes, and she explores how local businesspeople, companies like Ancestry.com, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots series powered the commercialization and commodification of genealogy.

Black Genealogy

Black Genealogy PDF Author: Charles L. Blockson
Publisher: Black Classic Press
ISBN: 9780933121539
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Presents the obstacles and advantages of searching for Black family history, including information about places to research, and documents and techniques used to uncover genealogical history, even though considered lost or incomplete.

Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society PDF Author: Afro-American Hist Genealogical Society
Publisher: Journal of the Afro-American H
ISBN: 9781796550252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society is an annual publication of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. It provides a medium for publishing original manuscripts, articles, and information on African and African American history and genealogy. The Journal is committed to documenting and preserving the African and African American experience by publishing historical and genealogical subject matter of interest to the African American family researcher, and facilitating the dissemination of historical and genealogical resources that will assist in African American family research.

A Student's Guide to African American Genealogy

A Student's Guide to African American Genealogy PDF Author: Anne E. Johnson
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Includes background information on African American history and culture and offers suggestions for tracing the genealogy of persons of African descent back to the ancestors' arrival in America. An annotated list of resources is presented for each chapter.

Man-hunters of the Old West

Man-hunters of the Old West PDF Author: Robert K. DeArment
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806160616
Category : Bounty hunters
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Noted western historian Robert K. DeArment recounts the remarkable careers of eight men--Pat Garrett, John Hughes, Harry Love, Harry Morse, Frank Norfleet, Bass Reeves, Granville Stuart, and Tom Tobin--who pursued notorious criminals.

African American Genealogical Sourcebook

African American Genealogical Sourcebook PDF Author: Paula Kay Byers
Publisher: Gale Cengage
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Gale has launched another new project--Genealogical Sourcebook series--and the first volumes look promising. The remaining volumes on Asian Americans and Native Americans will be published this summer. Libraries can order all four volumes for $239 (0-8103-8541-4). Part 1 of each volume consists of informative essays on immigration and migration, basic genealogical methods and resources, and problems specific to ethnic genealogy--such as naming practices, the reuse of graves where families could not afford perpetual sites, and reasons for deliberate falsification of records. Explanations and tips on accessing records specific to these groups, such as those of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Inquisition, records of religious orders, and an overview of newspaper ads and Hispanic heraldry are instructive and pragmatic. Tables, examples, and an extensive bibliography are included. Part 2, 'Directory of Genealogical Information, ' lists libraries and archives, public and private organizations, print resources, and other media that 'hold materials relevant to genealogists whether their focus is on genealogy in general or on a specific ethnic group.' Libraries and archives are listed geographically; those outside the U.S. are in Canada for African Americans, and in Guatemala, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Canada for Hispanic Americans. There are surprisingly few listings for Florida, which has a substantial Hispanic population. Private and public organizations include commercial ventures (publishers, researchers for a fee, bookstores) and nonprofits (genealogical societies, the American Antiquarian Society, etc.). The section entitled 'Print Resources' lists many sources from the 1980s, but there are also current publications. The author and title-organization indexes access only the products and sources listed in part 2. The subject index accesses the essays in part 1. Libraries that hold books such as George R. Ryskamp's Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage (1984) will want to keep them for their scholarly thoroughness. They will want to add these new books for their relative currency and for their simpler explanations of complicated facets of black and Hispanic culture.--BL 05/15/1995.