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For courses in African-American HistoryRevel™ is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.
A compelling story of agency, survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity
Revel The African-American Odyssey presents a clear overview of black history within a broad social, cultural, and political framework, instilling in students an appreciation of the central place of African Americans in American history. Authors Darlene Clark Hine, William Hine, and Stanley Harrold trace the long and turbulent journey of African Americans, the rich culture they have nurtured throughout their history, and the quest for freedom through which they have sought to counter oppression and racism. Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest scholarship, the Seventh Edition covers key events during Barack Obama’s second Presidential term, as well as the emergence of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
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- Integrated within the narrative, interactives and videos empower students to engage with concepts and take an active role in learning. Revel's unique presentation of media as an intrinsic part of course content brings the hallmark features of Pearson's bestselling titles to life. Revel's media interactives have been designed to be completed quickly, and its videos are brief, so students stay focused and on task.
- An end-of-chapter source collection includes three to five documents relevant to the chapter content. Each document includes header notes, questions, and audio. Students can highlight and make notes on the documents as needed.
- Interactive maps throughout the text enable students to pan and zoom as needed and to toggle on and off important details.
- Selected photos include “hotspots” on which students can click to learn more about specific, important details related to the image.
- Additional resources — such as Retracing the Odyssey, Recommended Reading, and an additional bibliography — assist students in doing more research on particular topics covered in the chapter.
- An interactive chapter review section offers a timeline, key term flashcards, an image gallery, a video gallery, and review questions. As students review key content, they can click on specific topics to learn more or test their knowledge about concepts covered in the chapter.
- Multiple-choice module-and chapter-ending quizzes test student’s knowledge of the chapter content, including dates, concepts, and major events.
- The Revel mobile app lets students read, practice, and study — anywhere, anytime, on any device. Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications to stay on top of all due dates.
- Revel’s writing functionality enables educators to integrate writing — among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking — into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion. And Essays integrated directly within Revel allow instructors to assign the precise writing tasks they need for the course.
- Key terms, set in bold, are accompanied by inline pop-up definitions that allow students to see the meaning of a word or phrase while they read, providing context.
- Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students read and study however they like. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips.
Pedagogical tools reinforce the narrative and help students grasp key issues
- Part-opening timelines group key events in African-American history thematically and highlight the many noteworthy individuals discussed in the chapters.
- Chronologies throughout the text provide snapshots of the temporal relationships among significant events.
- Voices boxes offer students first-person perspectives on key events in African-American history. Brief introductions and study questions help students analyze these primary source documents and make connections between the content of these features and the larger narrative.
- Profile boxes provide biographical sketches that highlight the contributions and personalities of both prominent individuals and ordinary people, illuminating common experiences among African Americans at various times and places.
- Connecting the Past essays examine important milestones of the African-American experience over time. Topics include the evolution of the black church, the emergence of black autobiography, black migration, desegregation of the military, and black culture.
Thorough integration of updated scholarship throughout ensures an up-to-date learning experience
Highlights of new and updated content include the following:
- NEW! Chapter 15 features a new section on the emergence of gospel music, as well as a new discussion on African American men's’ role in the development and growth of horse racing.
- NEW! Part VI includes a significantly updated timeline that covers The Black Revolution to the present.
- NEW! The order and presentation of Chapters 23 and 24 have been switched in this edition to improve the chronological flow of information about African-American history.
- NEW! Chapter 23 includes an added discussion of President Obama’s second term election and several of the most consequential recent accomplishments of his presidency, including normalization of relations with Cuba and the Iran nuclear agreement.
- NEW! Chapter 24 includes updated statistical charts relating to mass incarceration, black family composition, changes in the number of children living with single mothers, and health care statistics.
Superior assignability and tracking tools help educators make sure students are completing their reading and understanding core concepts
- Revel’s assignment calendar allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. When they understand exactly what is expected of them, students are better motivated to keep up.
- Revel’s performance dashboard empowers educators to monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement. Actionable information, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task, helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways. For example, the trending column reveals whether students' grades are improving or declining, helping educators to identify students who might need help to stay on track.
- Revel’s Blackboard Learn™ integration provides institutions, instructors, and students easy access to their Revel courses. With single sign-on, students can be ready to access Revel’s interactive blend of authors' narrative, media, and assessment on their first day. Flexible, on-demand grade synchronization capabilities allow educators to control exactly which Revel grades should be transferred to the Blackboard Gradebook.
Print-on-demand functionality after purchase gives students an extra level of support
- Revel was designed to give students everything they need, all in one integrated digital learning environment. But if students wish to order a print version of their Revel program, they can do so from directly within Revel after purchase for a small fee at any time during the course. We offer this option in order to facilitate successful learning outcomes for students with varied learning styles.
New to This Edition
- Integrated within the narrative, interactives and videos empower students to engage with concepts and take an active role in learning. Revel's unique presentation of media as an intrinsic part of course content brings the hallmark features of Pearson's bestselling titles to life. Revel's media interactives have been designed to be completed quickly, and its videos are brief, so students stay focused and on task.
- An end-of-chapter source collection includes three to five documents relevant to the chapter content. Each document includes header notes, questions, and audio. Students can highlight and make notes on the documents as needed.
- Interactive maps throughout the text enable students to pan and zoom as needed and to toggle on and off important details.
- Selected photos include “hotspots” on which students can click to learn more about specific, important details related to the image.
- Additional resources — such as Retracing the Odyssey, Recommended Reading, and an additional bibliography — assist students in doing more research on particular topics covered in the chapter.
- An interactive chapter review section offers a timeline, key term flashcards, an image gallery, a video gallery, and review questions. As students review key content, they can click on specific topics to learn more or test their knowledge about concepts covered in the chapter.
- Multiple-choice module-and chapter-ending quizzes test student’s knowledge of the chapter content, including dates, concepts, and major events.
- The Revel mobile app lets students read, practice, and study — anywhere, anytime, on any device. Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications to stay on top of all due dates.
- Revel’s writing functionality enables educators to integrate writing — among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking — into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion. And Essays integrated directly within Revel allow instructors to assign the precise writing tasks they need for the course.
- Key terms, set in bold, are accompanied by inline pop-up definitions that allow students to see the meaning of a word or phrase while they read, providing context.
- Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students read and study however they like. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips.
Thorough integration of updated scholarship throughout ensures an up-to-date learning experience
New and updated content includes the following:
- Chapter 12 – There is additional information on class and status among African Americans after the Civil War. The section on the Black Codes has been revised and enhanced. There is a new Voices box that features Jourdan Anderson’s 1865 letter to his former master.
- Chapter 13 – The essay on voting rights and politics in the Connecting the Past section that follows the chapter has new a commentary on the importance of voting and President Barack Obama’s 2015 statements on the Voting Rights Act.
- Chapter 14 – The section on convict leasing has been enhanced and new information on black women in the convict lease system has been included.
- Chapter 15 – There is a new section on the emergence of gospel music. There is also a new discussion on African American men and their role in the development and growth of horse racing.
- Chapter 16 – There is added information on W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk.
- Chapter 17 – The discussion of scientific racism has been revised and expanded. There is a new section on Amy Jacques Garvey, the wife of Marcus Garvey, and a new section on Harlem radical and intellectual Hubert Harrison
- Chapter 18 – The discussion of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was revised. New books have been added to the bibliography. The timelines have been revised.
- Chapter 19 – The discussion of black culture and cultural leaders has been expanded and updated. A profile of Duke Ellington has been added, as has an expanded discussion of Paul Robeson. The chapter includes revised and updated timelines, with the insertion of more individuals. An updated discussion of Jesse Owens is also included.
- Chapter 20 – A new discussion of President Truman’s Executive Order 9981 has been added. The discussion of Black women in the military during World War II has been expanded. A longer discussion of the post–World War II violence that returning black servicemen encountered, especially in the South, has been added.
- Part VI – The section includes a significantly updated timeline that covers The Black Revolution to the present.
- Chapter 21 – A new profile of Oklahoma activist Clara Luper has been added along with more discussion of the civil rights movement in Oklahoma. A discussion of twenty-first century efforts to reduce black voting has been added. The discussion of the Little Rock Nine has been expanded to include President Eisenhower’s support for the parents and children, as well as the subsequent careers of the graduates, including Ernest Green.
- Chapter 22 – Updated discussion of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X and Black Nationalism and the Black Panther Party has been included. Additional coverage of Lorraine Hansberry and an updated bibliography have also been included in this chapter.
- Chapter 23 – The order and presentation of Chapters 23 and 24 have been switched in this edition to improve the chronological flow of information about African-American history. This chapter includes an added discussion of President Obama’s second term election and several of the most consequential recent accomplishments of his presidency, including normalization of relations with Cuba and the Iran nuclear agreement. Details about the national epidemic of mass murders combined with the police shootings that inspired the formation of the Black Lives Matter Movement during the closing years of the Obama presidency have been provided. Additional analysis of recent USSC decision on education discrimination has been included. A new table on African American participants in U.S. presidential inaugurations has been included.
- Chapter 24 – This chapter includes updated statistical charts relating to mass incarceration, black family composition, changes in the number of children living with single mothers, and health care statistics. Expanded discussion of cultural changes focuses on the lives and contribution of cultural activists from the civil rights movement era to the contemporary hip-hop era. Discussion of past and present women and men in the STEM professions has also been expanded. In addition, the chapter provides updated tables on HIV/AIDS health care crisis. A map on black unemployment rate is also now included.
Superior assignability and tracking tools help educators make sure students are completing their reading and understanding core concepts
- Revel’s assignment calendar allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. When they understand exactly what is expected of them, students are better motivated to keep up.
- Revel’s performance dashboard empowers educators to monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement. Actionable information, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task, helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways. For example, the trending column reveals whether students' grades are improving or declining, helping educators to identify students who might need help to stay on track.
- Revel’s Blackboard Learn™ integration provides institutions, instructors, and students easy access to their Revel courses. With single sign-on, students can be ready to access Revel’s interactive blend of authors' narrative, media, and assessment on their first day. Flexible, on-demand grade synchronization capabilities allow educators to control exactly which Revel grades should be transferred to the Blackboard Gradebook.
Print-on-demand functionality after purchase gives students an extra level of support
- Revel was designed to give students everything they need, all in one integrated digital learning environment. But if students wish to order a print version of their Revel program, they can do so from directly within Revel after purchase for a small fee at any time during the course. We offer this option in order to facilitate successful learning outcomes for students with varied learning styles.
Table of Contents
PART III - THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION, AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION
12. The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868
13. The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868-1877
PART IV - SEARCHING FOR SAFE SPACES
14. White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877-1895
15. African Americans Challenge White Supremacy, 1877-1918
16. Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, 1895-1925
17. African Americans and the 1920s, 1918-1929
PART V - THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II
18. Black Protest, Great Depression, and the New Deals, 1929-1940
19. Meanings of Freedom: Black Culture and Society, 1930-1950
20. The World War II Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1940-1950
PART VI - THE BLACK REVOLUTION
21. The Long Freedom Movement, 1950-1970
22. Black Nationalism, Black Power, and Black Arts, 1965-1980
23. Black Politics and President Barack Obama, 1980-2016
24. African Americans End the Twentieth Century and Enter into the Twenty-First Century, 1980-2016
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Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as past president of the Organization of American Historians and of the Southern Historical Association. In 2014 President Barack Obama awarded Hine the National Humanities Medal (2013) for her work in African American and in Black Women's History. In 2015, the National Women's History Project honored Hine for her contributions to women's history. Hine received her BA at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and her MA and PhD from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Hine has taught at South Carolina State University and at Purdue University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She is the author and/or coeditor of 20 books, most recently The Black Chicago Renaissance (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012), Black Europe and the African Diaspora (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010), coedited with Trica Danielle Keaton and Stephen Small; Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005), coedited with Barry Gaspar; and The Harvard Guide to African-American History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), coedited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack. She coedited a two-volume set with Earnestine Jenkins, A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 2001); and with Jacqueline McLeod, Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000). With Kathleen Thompson she wrote A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1998), and edited with Barry Gaspar More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). She won the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association for the reference volumes coedited with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993). She is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890 - 1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). She continues to work on the forthcoming book project, The Black Professional Class: Physicians, Nurses, Lawyers, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890 - 1955.
Now retired, William C. Hine taught history for many years at South Carolina State University.
Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and coeditor of Southern Dissent, a book series published by the University Press of Florida. Harrold has a BA from Allegheny College and an MA and PhD from Kent State University. He has received four National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, most recently in 2013 -- 14. His books include Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (Kent State University Press, 1986), The Abolitionists and the South (University Press of Kentucky, 1995), Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, coedited with John R. McKivigan (University of Tennessee Press, 1999), American Abolitionists (Taylor & Francis, 2001), Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828 - 1865 (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader (Wiley, 2007), and Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). In 2011, Border War won the Southern Historical Association's 2011 James A. Rawley Award and received an honorable mention for the Lincoln Prize. Harrold has recently published articles in North & South, Organization of American Historian's Magazine of History, and Ohio Valley History.
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