In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9780393318890
ISBN-13 : 0393318893
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Book Synopsis In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 by : Quintard Taylor

Download or read book In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 written by Quintard Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that begins in 1528 and carries through to the present-day black success in politics and the surging interest in multiculturalism.


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