Africanisms In American Culture

Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217493
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition written by Joseph E. Holloway and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.

Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africanisms in American Culture written by Joseph E. Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.

Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820314655
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties written by Salikoko S. Mufwene and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: Daniel J. Crowley, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 188-190.

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History written by Jack Salzman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sterling Stuckey Professor of History Northwestern University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198021240
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Culture : Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America written by Sterling Stuckey Professor of History Northwestern University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987-04-23 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were blacks in American slavery formed, out of a multiplicity of African ethnic peoples, into a single people? In this major study of Afro-American culture, Sterling Stuckey, a leading thinker on black nationalism for the past twenty years, explains how different African peoples interacted during the nineteenth century to achieve a common culture. He finds that, at the time of emancipation, slaves were still overwhelmingly African in culture, a conclusion with profound implications for theories of black liberation and for the future of race relations in America. By examining anthropological evidence about Central and West African cultural traditions--Bakongo, Ibo, Dahomean, Mendi and others--and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey has arrived at an important new cross-cultural analysis of the Pan-African impulse among slaves that contributed to the formation of a black ethos. He establishes, for example, the centrality of an ancient African ritual--the Ring Shout or Circle Dance--to the black American religious and artistic experience. Black nationalist theories, the author points out, are those most in tune with the implication of an African presence in America during and since slavery. Casting a fresh new light on these ideas, Stuckey provides us with fascinating profiles of such nineteenth century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglas. He then considers in detail the lives and careers of W. E. B. Dubois and Paul Robeson in this century, describing their ambition that blacks in American society, while struggling to end racism, take on roles that truly reflected their African heritage. These concepts of black liberation, Stuckey suggests, are far more relevant to the intrinsic values of black people than integrationist thought on race relations. But in a final revelation he concludes that, with the exception of Paul Robeson, the ironic tendency of black nationalists has been to underestimate the depths of African culture in black Americans and the sophistication of the slave community they arose from.

Author : Mwalimu J. Shujaa
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506331696
Total Pages : 1951 pages
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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America written by Mwalimu J. Shujaa and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 1951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity. FEATURES: A two-volume A-to-Z work, available in a choice of print or electronic formats 350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings 150 figures and photos Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries Signed articles concluding with cross-references

Author : Omari L. Dyson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440862443
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Culture written by Omari L. Dyson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States. According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identifies as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are common across mainstream American culture—in music, the arts, and entertainment; in education and religion; in sports; and in politics and business. African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs covers virtually every aspect of African American cultural expression, addressing subject matter that ranges from how African culture was preserved during slavery hundreds of years ago to the richness and complexity of African American culture in the post-Obama era. The most comprehensive reference work on African American culture to date, the multivolume set covers such topics as black contributions to literature and the arts, music and entertainment, religion, and professional sports. It also provides coverage of less-commonly addressed subjects, such as African American fashion practices and beauty culture, the development of jazz music across different eras, and African American business.

Author : George Brandon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211149
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santeria from Africa to the New World written by George Brandon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." —American Historical Review "He adeptly addresses broader issues, such as power relations within Caribbean slavery, multiculturalism, and the forms of religious accommodation to cultural change. In addition, he offers a fresh and cogent assessment of the production and reproduction of African beliefs and practices in new contexts. Brandon's exemplary archival research is supplemented by skillful participant observation." —Choice The Yoruba religious tradition arose in West Africa, but its influence has spread beyond Africa to millions of adherents in the Americas as well. Santeria from Africa to the New World retraces one path taken by this tradition—a path from Africa to Cuba and to New York City. George Brandon examines the religion's transatlantic route through Cuban Santeria, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Black Nationalism. In following the historical and anthropological evolution of the Yoruba religion, Brandon discusses broader questions of power, multiculturalism, cultural change, and the production and reproduction of African retentions.

Author : Brian D. Joyner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Reflections on the American Landscape written by Brian D. Joyner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Summarizes highlights of the scholarship presented at the conference, 'Places of cultural memory: African reflections on the American landscape, ' ... held May 9-12 in Atlanta, Georgia. It ... illustrates ways in which this scholarship can be applied"--Page v.

Author : Jacqui Malone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065088
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steppin' on the Blues written by Jacqui Malone and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life.