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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Walker, Sheila S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2001]
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Table of 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.