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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780679758716
This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African
American family (the author’s own) from privation to the middle
class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped
and distorted our thinking about African Americans–both in slavery
and in freedom.
Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to
fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently
freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they
take chances and break new ground.
From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman
Melville’s New England to the Jim Crow South, from urban race riots
to the battlefields of World War I, this fascinating chronicle
sheds new light on eighty crucial years in our nation’s troubled
history. The Bond family’s rise from slavery, their interaction
with prominent figures such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T.
Washington, and their eventual, uneasy realization of the American
dream shed a great deal of light on our nation’s troubled
heritage.
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