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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West, 1528-1990
In Search of the Racial Frontier African Americans in the West 15281990 Author:Quintard Taylor 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 Americans wholly abso... more »rbed into Native American culture to illustrating how the largely forgotten role of blacks in the West helped contribute to everything form 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.« less