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African roots/American cultures : Africa in the creation of the Americas / edited by Sheila S. Walker.

Contributor(s): Walker, Sheila S
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xx, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0742501655 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0742501647 (alk. paper)Subject(s): America -- Civilization -- African influences -- Congresses | African diaspora -- Congresses | Africans -- America -- History -- Congresses | African Americans -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 970 LOC classification: E20 | .A4 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Are you hip to the jive? (Re)writing/righting the Pan-American discourse / Sheila S. Walker -- Everyday Africa in New Jersey: wonderings and wanderings in the African Diaspora / Sheila S. Walker -- Reclaiming the Black presence in "mainstream culture" / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- The African Diaspora in world history and politics / Joseph E. Harris -- The transatlantic slave trade and the making of the modern world / Howard Dodson -- Africans and economic development in the Atlantic world, 1500-1870 / Joseph E. Inikori -- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: a transamerican intellectual / Lisa Sánchez González -- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing": the relationship between African and African American music / Olly Wilson -- Same boat, different stops: an African Atlantic culinary journey / Jessica B. Harris -- Roots and branches: historical patterns in African Diasporan artifacts / John Michael Vlach -- Cultural passages in the African Diaspora: the West Indian carnival / John O. Stewart -- The study of New York's African burial ground: biocultural and engaged / Michael L. Blakey --
New African Diasporic communities in the United States: community-centered approaches to research and presentation / Diana Baird N'Diaye -- African Diasporan concepts and practice of the nation and their implications in the modern world / Olabiyi B. Yai -- Candombe, African nations, and the Africanity of Uruguay / Tomás Olivera Chirimini -- "Catching sense" and the meaning of belonging on a South Carolina sea island / Patricia Guthrie -- Demystifying Africa's absence in Venezuelan history and culture / Jesús "Chucho" García -- Fárígá/Ìfaradà : Black resistance and achievement in Brazil / Gilberto R.N. Leal -- Quilombos and rebellions in Brazil / João José Reis -- The Afro populations of America's southern cone: organization, development, and culture in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay / Romero Jorge Rodríguez -- Afro-Argentineans: "forgotten" and "disappeared"--yet still present / Lucía Dominga Molina and Mario Luis López -- Stories and images of our people: propositions for a future / Gloria Rolando -- Embodied knowledge in African American dance performance / Yvonne Daniel.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West E20 .A4 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902333091

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Are you hip to the jive? (Re)writing/righting the Pan-American discourse / Sheila S. Walker -- Everyday Africa in New Jersey: wonderings and wanderings in the African Diaspora / Sheila S. Walker -- Reclaiming the Black presence in "mainstream culture" / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- The African Diaspora in world history and politics / Joseph E. Harris -- The transatlantic slave trade and the making of the modern world / Howard Dodson -- Africans and economic development in the Atlantic world, 1500-1870 / Joseph E. Inikori -- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: a transamerican intellectual / Lisa Sánchez González -- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing": the relationship between African and African American music / Olly Wilson -- Same boat, different stops: an African Atlantic culinary journey / Jessica B. Harris -- Roots and branches: historical patterns in African Diasporan artifacts / John Michael Vlach -- Cultural passages in the African Diaspora: the West Indian carnival / John O. Stewart -- The study of New York's African burial ground: biocultural and engaged / Michael L. Blakey --

New African Diasporic communities in the United States: community-centered approaches to research and presentation / Diana Baird N'Diaye -- African Diasporan concepts and practice of the nation and their implications in the modern world / Olabiyi B. Yai -- Candombe, African nations, and the Africanity of Uruguay / Tomás Olivera Chirimini -- "Catching sense" and the meaning of belonging on a South Carolina sea island / Patricia Guthrie -- Demystifying Africa's absence in Venezuelan history and culture / Jesús "Chucho" García -- Fárígá/Ìfaradà : Black resistance and achievement in Brazil / Gilberto R.N. Leal -- Quilombos and rebellions in Brazil / João José Reis -- The Afro populations of America's southern cone: organization, development, and culture in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay / Romero Jorge Rodríguez -- Afro-Argentineans: "forgotten" and "disappeared"--yet still present / Lucía Dominga Molina and Mario Luis López -- Stories and images of our people: propositions for a future / Gloria Rolando -- Embodied knowledge in African American dance performance / Yvonne Daniel.

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