Making of African America

<b>An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. </b> <p/> In this masterful account Ira Berlin one of the nation's most distinguished historians offers a revolutionary-and sure to be controversial-new view of African American history. In <i>The Making of African America</i> Berlin challenges the traditional presentation of a linear progressive history from slavery to freedom. Instead he puts forth the idea that four great migrations between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries lie at the heart of black American culture and its development. With an engrossing accessible narrative Berlin traces the transit from Africa to America Virginia to Alabama Biloxi to Chicago Lagos to the Bronx and in the process finds the essence of black American life.