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Middle Passages

African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

James T. Campbell David Levering Lewis

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English
Penguin USA
24 April 2007
"Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ""middle passage,"" but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans' ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States."

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Imprint:   Penguin USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 213mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   524g
ISBN:   9780143111986
ISBN 10:   0143111981
Pages:   560
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Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

James T. Campbell, PhD, is professor of United States history and the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States history at Stanford University. Dr. Campbell earned his BA from Yale University and both his MA and PhD from Stanford University. He is the author of Race, Nation, and Empire in American History and Middle Passages- African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005. David Levering Lewis is the author of God's Crucible- Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215;W. E. B. Du Bois- Biography of a Race, 1868-1919;W. E. B. Du Bois- The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963;and more. Lewis's work can be characterized as comparative history with interests in biography, civil rights, Europe and empire, and cultural politics. He is professor of history at New York University.

Reviews for Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

Campbell is a master storyteller who engages the reader in the human drama of American blacks confronting cultural realities that do not always square with the myths of an imagined native land. . . . Campbell provides an artful reconstruction of the often bittersweet experience of return and reunion. ( The New York Times Book Review )


  • Winner of Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2007
  • Winner of Pulitzer Prize (History).

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