In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi. From its surprising discussions of groups of African American wholly absorbed into Native American culture to illustrating how the largely forgotten role of blacks in the West helped contribute to everything from the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ruling to the rise of the Black Panther Party, Quintard Taylor fills a major void in American history and reminds us that the African American experience is unlimited by region or social status.

Author: Quintard Taylor
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.17w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780393318890
Revised Edition


Award: Oregon Book Awards - Nominee