Description
The history of Martha's Vineyard is the history of arrivals from elsewhere, of meetings and gatherings. The Island's population has, as a result, always been richly diverse. A hundred thousand life stories have unfolded on these hundred square miles of clay, gravel, and sandy soil, but only a fraction have been told, and the uniformity of their subjects (overwhelmingly, prosperous able-bodied white men engaged in public life) belies the diversity of Vineyarders.
Great strides in broadening that once-narrow vision have been made in the last half-century and, especially, in the two decades between the first (1997) and second (2016) editions of this volume. They varied in scope, sources, and focus, but were united by a common conviction that African American history is not peripheral, but central, to Vineyard history.
Author: A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 10/26/2016
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d
ISBN13: 9781429094344
ISBN10: 1429094346
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
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