Long Memory: The Black Experience in America

By John W. Blassingame and Mary Frances Berry

Book Overview

This powerful, provocative survey is organized around the key issues of Afro-American history: Africa and slavery, family, religion, sex and racism, politics, economics, education, criminal justice, discrimination and protest movements, and black nationalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195029100
• ISBN13: 9780195029109
• Release Date: July 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Not a bad book...

Even thought the book barely got used for its intended purpose, it was still a fine read.

Can be tedious, but worth it

This book can be overly academic and really drag on. The book is worth dragging through, however. It is the most complete history of the black experience in America that I have ever seen.

An excellent survey

Contrary to the myopic review below, 'Long Memory' chronicles an extensive analysis of the African American experience in America. Apart from an illusory union of American peoples which exists only in flaming conservative imaginations, there is nothing in this particular piece of classic literature that could even be remotely viewed as divisive, unless of course ethnophobia prevents one from seeing the world from the perspective of someone else's looking glass.