By Myra B. Young Armstead - Editor. Subtitled: A history of African American presence in the Hudson Valley region from the colonial period to the present. Using New York State's Hudson Valley as a backdrop, this book provides a regional perspective on black identity from the colonial period to the present. Through racialized struggles and varying experiences of black residents, a black presence in the region has persisted. Factors such as religious structures and cosmologies, ethnicity, legal systems, economic patterns, class, gender, family structures, and leaders have uniquely influenced black identity. 6x9 286 pages index Paper