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Print Price: $1,680.00

Format:
Hardback
7584 pp.
100, 7" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780199920778

Publication date:
March 2013

Imprint: OUP US


African American National Biography

Second Edition

Editor-in-chief: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Editor-in-chief: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Series : The African American History Reference Series

The African American National Biography presents history through a mosaic of the lives of thousands of individuals, illuminating the abiding influence of persons of African descent on the life of this nation from the arrival of Esteban in Spanish Florida in 1529 through to notable black citizens of the present day.

The original eight-volume set has now been expanded to ten handsome volumes in its second edition, bringing the total number of lives profiled to nearly 5,000. The AANB continues to grow along with the field of African American biographical research, providing for continuous updates to the online edition, each entry written and signed by distinguished scholars. This is a remarkable achievement, a tenfold increase over the number of biographies contained in 2004's award-winning and substantial African American Lives.

In addition to Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr., the AANB includes a wide range of African Americans from all time periods and all walks of life. Lives profiled include those already recognized as giants of black history, figures whose stories have never been told and that readers will be discovering for the first time, and living people who are shaping the era in which we now live. The names within are both famous and nearly-forgotten. In the words of AANB editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "These stories, long buried in the dusty archives of history, will never be lost again. And that is what scholarship in the field of African American Studies should be all about."

Readership : Marketing research has demonstrated that this set may have a stronger appeal to the high school market than most other large works published by the Reference department. Also, particular subject areas and regions may be of interest to the sales team, and the second edition includes an index for both. In particular, the set is strong on civil rights pioneers, literary figures, government officials, and war heroes. As for regions, the set is strongest with people from the South and from Northeastern cities. The newer topics have attempted to expand into the West.

List of Articles
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Editorial Note
AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Directory of Contributors
African American Prizewinners
Index by Birthplace
Realm of Renown

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and Afro-American Studies, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Harvard University, and Editor of The Harvard Guide to African American History.

Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
African American Lives - Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass: 3-Volume Set - Editor in Chief: Paul Finkelman
Black Women in America: 3-Volume Set - Edited by Darlene Clark Hine
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience: 5-Volume Set - Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois: 19-Volume Set - Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Special Features

  • With nearly 5,000 entries, it is the most extensive African American biographical encyclopedia ever compiled, including the widest range of historically significant black individuals possible.
  • Authoritative ten-volume reference set that will appeal to university and high school librarians.
  • The AANB will continue to grow beyond the print set in its online form. These biographies are one of the centerpieces of the online Oxford African American Study Center.
New to this Edition
  • 1,000 new lives profiled.
  • 100 new images.