African roots/American cultures
Subtitle: Africa in the creation of the Americas
By: edited by Sheila S. Walker
Contributors: Walker, Sheila S
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: African diaspora -- Congresses; Africans -- America -- History -- Congresses; African Americans -- History -- Congresses; America -- Civilization -- African influences -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Are you hip to the jive? (Re)writing/righting the Pan-American discourse / Sheila S. Walker; title: Everyday Africa in New Jersey : wonderings and wanderings in the African diaspora / Sheila S. Walker; title: Reclaiming the Black presence in "mainstream culture" / Shelley Fisher Fishkin; title: Stripping the emperor : the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild; title: The African diaspora in world history and politics / Joseph E. Harris; title: The transatlantic slave trade and the making of the modern world / Howard Dodson; title: Africans and economic development in the Atlantic world, 1500-1870 / Joseph E. Inikori; title: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg : a transamerican intellectual / Lisa Sánchez González; title: "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" : the relationship between African and African American music / Olly Wilson; title: Same boat, different stops : an African Atlantic culinary journey / Jessica B. Harris; title: Roots and branches : historical patterns in African diasporan artifacts / John Michael Vlach; title: Cultural passages in the African diaspora : the West Indian carnival / John O. Stewart; title: The study of New York's African burial ground : biocultural and engaged / Michael L. Blakey; title: New African diasporic communities in the United States : community-centered approaches to research and presentation / Diana Baird N'Diaye; title: African diasporan concepts and practice of the nation and their implications in the modern world / Olabiyi B. Yai; title: Candombe, African nations, and the Africanity of Uruguay / Tomás Olivera Chirimini; title: "Catching sense" and the meaning of belonging on a South Carolina sea island / Patricia Guthrie; title: Demystifying Africa's absence in Venezuelan history and culture / Jesús "Chucho" García; title: Fárígá/Ìfaradà : Black resistance and achievement in Brazil / Gilberto R.N. Leal; title: Quilombos and rebellions in Brazil / João José Reis; title: The Afro populations of America's southern cone : organization, development, and culture in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay / Romero Jorge Rodríguez; title: Afro-Argentineans : "forgotten" and "disappeared"; title: yet still present / Lucía Dominga Molina and Mario Luis López; title: Stories and images of our people : propositions for a future / Gloria Rolando; title: Embodied knowledge in African American dance performance / Yvonne Daniel