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Africana studies : a survey of Africa and the African diaspora /

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This fourth edition of Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora comes at an important time, as Africans on the continent and their descendants in the United States and in the Caribbean and Latin America and all over the globe are attempting to free themselves from the shackles a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Azevedo, Mario Joaquim (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2019]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
African diaspora.
Africa > History.
Blacks > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Intellectual Foundations of the Black Experience
  • African studies and the state of the art / Mario J. Azevedo
  • African American studies and the state of the art / Rico D. Chapman
  • Part II. Peoples of African descent and their place in history
  • Africa and the genesis of mankind / R. Hunt Davis, Jr
  • Transatlantic slavery and the underdevelopment of Africa / Agya Boakye-Boaten
  • Diaspora Africans and slavery / Raymond Gavins and Marsha J. Tyson Darling
  • European exploration and conquest of Africa / Mario J. Azevedo
  • The quest for equality: from reconstruction to Obama / Marsha J. Tyson Darling
  • The African experience in the Caribbean: continuity and change / Lomarsh Roopnarine
  • African nationalism: freedom for men, women, and the nation / Maria Martin
  • The Pan-African movement / Michael Williams
  • Part III. The present and the future of the Black world
  • The contemporary African world / Luis B. Serapiao
  • The contemporary African diaspora / Msia Kibona Clark
  • Continental Africans and Africans in America: the progression of a relationship / F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam
  • Part IV. Contributions of the Black world
  • Music in Africa and the Caribbean / Roderic Knight and Kenneth Bilby
  • African American music: an introduction / Eddie S. Meadows
  • The art of Africa and the diaspora / Sharon Pruitt
  • Literature in Africa and the Caribbean / Tanure Ojaide
  • African American literature: a survey / Trudier Harris
  • Contributions in science, business, film, and sports / Mario J. Azvedo
  • Part V. Society and values in the Black world
  • The African family / Mario J. Azevedo
  • The African American family / Gwendolyn Spencer Prater
  • Religion in Africa / Mario J. Azevedo
  • Religion in the diaspora / Kevin D. Butler
  • The evolving roles of African women / Agnes Ngoma Leslie
  • Women of the Caribbean / A. Lynn Bolles, Barbara Shaw
  • Lifting as we rise: women in America / Marsha J. Tyson Darling
  • Africa anew: reinventing community alliances and indigenous ways in the age of HIV/AIDS / Almaz Zewede
  • Debunking the myth of the doctrine of the discovery of Africa / Jeremias Zunguze.