In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience 

African Americans, more than any other population in the Americas, have been shaped by migrations. Their culture and history are the results of various movements, both coerced and voluntary, that started in the Western hemisphere 500 years ago. In Motion is the first book of its kind to trace these migrations and study the effects.

With the help of comprehensive maps and illustrations, it explains how four major periods of migration define the African-American experience. Always on the move, resourceful and creative men and women of African origin have been risk-takers even in the face of exploitive and hostile environments. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture have enabled them to thrive and help settle and develop the Americas. In Motion identifies how the people of the early migrations transformed the cities they settled in, and turned their neighborhoods into the primary destinations for black people arriving from the Caribbean, West Africa, and South America, making their heritage the most diverse in the nation. Today's 35 million African Americans are heirs to all the migrations that formed and constantly transformed their communities and the country as a whole.