"The essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African-American migration which began in the early twentieth century.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S F

An exploration of the impact of the massive migration of southern blacks to the North

As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a si

This book examines the historiography of the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present. It considers how, and why, the study of African Am