In Search of the Racial Frontier
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"An enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come." —David Nicholson, Washington Post
A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi. From its surprising discussions of groups of African American wholly absorbed into Native American culture to illustrating how the largely forgotten role of blacks in the West helped contribute to everything from the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ruling to the rise of the Black Panther Party, Quintard Taylor fills a major void in American history and reminds us that the African American experience is unlimited by region or social status.
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- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Tables
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1: Spanish Origins, 1528-1848
- 2: Slavery in the Antebellum West, 1835-65
- 3: Freedom in the Antebellum West, 1835-65
- 4: Reconstruction in the West, 1865-75
- 5: Migration and Settlement, 1875-1920
- 6: Buffalo Soldiers in the West, 1866-1917
- 7: The Black Urban West, 1870-1910
- 8: The Black Urban West, 1911-40
- 9: World War II and the Postwar Black West, 1941-50
- 10: The Civil Rights Movement in the West, 1950-70
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Praise for In Search of the Racial Frontier
- Also by Quintard Taylor
- About the Author
- Copyright
