Writing History from the Margins
Parfait, Claire / Le Dantec-Lowry, Hélène / Bourhis-Mariotti, Claire With contributions from leading American and European scholars, this collection of original essays surveys the actors and the modes of writing history from the "margins" of society, focusing specifically on African Americans. Nearly 100 years after The Journal of Negro History was founded, this book assesses the legacy of the African American historians, mostly amateur historians initially, who wrote the history of their community between the ...