Reversing Sail, Michael Gomez
Reversing Sail, Michael Gomez
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Reversing Sail
A History of the African Diaspora, 2nd Edition

Author: Michael Gomez

Narrator: Amir Abdullah

Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/20/2022

Synopsis

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. In this second edition, Michael A. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent research on the African Diaspora. Continuing to pay particular attention to the lives of the working classes, the second edition expands its temporal boundaries to include developments into the twenty-first century, as well as integrating women and feminist perspectives more thoroughly. It also widens the geographical span to include Latin America, while incorporating more on African experiences in Europe, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf. Assessing the impact of religion, global trade, slavery and resistance, and the challenges of modernity, this edition further connects the experiences of Africans and their descendants over time and space, attending to both convergences and divergences, while explaining how the deep past informs subsequent developments.

About Michael Gomez

Michael A. Gomez is the Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. His books include Black Crescent: African Muslims in the Americas, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora, and Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig

Where do we begin with African American history ? African American history encapsulates both America and Africa, but when America and Africa met conflict ensued. America and Africa met during a period in which America enslaved people of African descent, and through the enslavement process, the ensla......more

Goodreads review by Nai

I think it's a great book! It was one of the required texts for the African Diaspora course I took in college. I then used it to teach a year later.......more

Goodreads review by James

Next to the Bible, this book has the greatest impact on my life. It is actually a text book from an African American history class that covers the movement of African Descendants throughout history and the possible reasons behind those migrations. Why do Dominican and Other Latin baseball players lo......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

Apparently designed to be a main or adjunct text in a course about the subject of the African diaspora, "Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora" is a book which is both to be valued because of this focus, and disparaged because it adheres too closely to its purpose of seeking to reveal al......more

Goodreads review by Nadia

To be honest, I have no idea how to rate this book. I've spent the past two semesters dreading whenever we had to read a chapter, but objectively it's excellent. If you are looking for a truly comprehensive history of the African Diaspora free from Eurocentric influences, this is it. Gomez offers a......more

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