Introduction: the long rugged road / Africa, the slave trade, and the diaspora / Creating a biracial society, 1619-1720 / Africans in eighteenth-century North America / In search of freedom: slave life in the antebellum south / "Though we are not slave, we are not free:" quasi-free blacks in antebellum America / Full of faith, full of hope: the African-American experience from emancipation to segragation

Blacks in the economy from Reconstruction to World War I / In search of the promised land: black migration and urbanizaiton, 1900-1940 / From Booker T. to Malcolm X: black political thought, 1895-1965 / Rights, power, and equality: the modern civil rights movement / Sounds of blackness: African-American music / Black voices: themes in African-American literature / Black religious traditions: sacred and secular themes

African-American family life in societal context: crisis and hope / From black bourgeoisie to African-American middle class, 1957 to present / New underclass: concentrated black poverty in the postindustrial city / Black feminism in the United States / African Americans and education since the Brown decisions: a contextual view / After the movement: African Americans and civil rights since 1970

Quest for black equity: African-American politics since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Black internationalism: African Americans and foreign policy activism