The Myth Of The Negro Past

Author : Melville Herskovits
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807009059
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of The Negro Past written by Melville Herskovits and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.

Author : Melville J. Herskovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Negro Past written by Melville J. Herskovits and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melville Jean Herskovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Negro Past written by Melville Jean Herskovits and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melville J. Herskovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The myth of the Negro past written by Melville J. Herskovits and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. J. Herskovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844606958
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Myth of the Negro Past written by M. J. Herskovits and published by . This book was released on 1985-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Herskovits Melville
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015401778
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth Of The Negro Past written by J. Herskovits Melville and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jerry Gershenhorn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803221871
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge written by Jerry Gershenhorn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledgeis the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (1895?1963) employed physical anthropology and ethnography to undermine racist and hierarchical ways of thinking about humanity and to underscore the value of cultural diversity. His research in West Africa, the West Indies, and South America documented the far-reaching influence of African cultures in the Americas. He founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies in 1948 at Northwestern University, and his controversial classicThe Myth of the Negro Pastdelineated African cultural influences on American blacks and showcased the vibrancy of African American culture. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his bookMan and His Works. While Herskovits promoted African and African American studies, he criticized some activist black scholars, most notably Carter G. Woodson and W. E. B. Du Bois, whom he considered propagandists because of their social reform orientation. ø After World War II, Herskovits became an outspoken public figure, advocating African independence and attacking American policymakers who treated Africa as an object of Cold War strategy. Drawing extensively on Herskovits?s private papers and published works, Jerry Gershenhorn?s biography recognizes Herskovits?s many contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars.

Author : Tom Burrell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145875118X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainwashed written by Tom Burrell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black people are not dark-skinned white people, says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of no way! At this point in history, the idea of black inferiority sh...

Author : Alphonso Pinkney
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521310475
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Black Progress written by Alphonso Pinkney and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the status of black Americans since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Author : Kevin M. Levin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653273
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Download or read book Searching for Black Confederates written by Kevin M. Levin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.