Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies

Unprecedented in scope and approach, this collection explores debates about the signal issues of the black experience in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Over 160 primary writings essays, speeches, petitions, editorials, newspaper and journal articles, manifestos, political cartoons, poems, and fiction map the controversies surrounding emigration and migration, black nationalism and separatism, violent and nonviolent protest, black women's rights, the existence of a black aesthetic, the role of religion in the civil rights struggle, and affirmative action, among other key debates.