AfricanAmerican Odyssey The Volume 1 - 4th Edition Author:Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, Stanley Harrold More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history ? not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-American history is inseparably weaved into the greater context of American history and vice versa.