African roots/American cultures : Africa in the creation of the Americas

Walker, Sheila S. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0742501647
ISBN: 9780742501645
ISBN: 0742501655
ISBN: 9780742501652
Physical Description: print
xx, 375 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Copyright: ©2001.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.