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Africana, the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates

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Africana, the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 2065-2095)

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mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Africana

Nature of contents

bibliographyencyclopedias

Oclc number

41649745

Responsibility statement

editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates

Sub title

the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience

Summary

A guide to the history and current state of Africa and African American heritage includes entries on topics ranging from affirmative action to zydeco

Table Of Contents

Introduction: An Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Charts, Maps, and Tables -- Articles -- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience -- Ancient African Civilizations/Kevin MacDonald -- Civil Rights Movement/Patricia Sullivan -- Decolonization in Africa: An Interpretation/Frederick Cooper -- Garrido, Juan: A Black Conquistador in Mexico/Paul Gerhard -- Harlem Renaissance/David Levering Lewis -- Islam and Tradition/Lamin Sanneh -- Latin America, Blacks and Indians in: An Interpretation/Peter Wade -- Pan-Africanism and Afro-Latin America/Darien J. Davis -- Photography, African American/Deborah Willis -- Transatlantic Slave Trade/ Stephen Behrendt -- W E.B. Du Bois: An Interpretation/Cornel West -- Women and the Black Baptist Church/Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- Select Bibliography

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