TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS WRITE SECOND EDITION OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN ATLAS
A living document of the black experience in America, the second edition of The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture (Macmillan Publications) traces critical periods in African American life with charts, maps, text and photographs in color and black-and-white.
Co-written by Temple University professors Molefi K. Asante and Mark T. Mattson, the 240-page volume recounts the arrival of the first African in America, the Middle Passage, and profiles cultural figures like Sojourner Truth, Carter G. Woodson, Phyllis Wheatley, Nat Turner, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Dubois.
The book weaves information into a visual and narrative portrait of the African-American experience within regional, national and international frameworks.
A reference for history buffs and students, The African-American Atlas tracks the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in America and lynching in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Georgia, and elsewhere. It also gives information about historical sites in Ancient Africa, political maps of 14th-18th century Africa, and African explorers with Europeans.
"The Atlas seeks to provide an accurate spatial representation of historical, social, economic and cultural information about African-American people," says Dr. Asante, a professor of African American studies and the nation's leading proponent of Afrocentric thought.
"We are extremely pleased about the second edition of The African-American Atlas. It's a living document of present and future conditions within America's largest ethnic community," says Dr. Mattson, a professor of geography and urban studies and an expert on micro-computer mapping. (more) add one-Asante/Mattson
Additional key periods and movements covered in the cultural history of African Americans include the European slave trade, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the effects of Emancipation, the civil rights movement, and social and economic realities of the 20th century.
The more general topics in the book highlight development of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the emergence of the black middle class, the Nation of Islam in America, and African Americans on the international scene.
The African-American Atlas is a historical guide to how African Americans have organized their lives, says Asante, explaining that "we have tried, in this edition, as in the first, to show that African Americans, though domiciled in the Americas, are not detached from the history and cultural traditions of Africa. We also have integrated the maps, statistical information and cultural data into narrative segments that should be easy to follow."
For information, call Dr. Asante at 215/204-4322, or Dr. Mattson, 204-1426.
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