| Description |
xx, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
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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America -- Civilization -- African influences -- Congresses.
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America. |
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Civilization. |
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African diaspora -- Congresses.
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African diaspora. |
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Africans -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Africans. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- History -- Congresses.
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African Americans. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Walker, Sheila S.
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| ISBN |
0742501647 alkaline paper |
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9780742501645 alkaline paper |
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0742501655 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780742501652 paperback alkaline paper |
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