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Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0253217490

ISBN-13: 9780253217493

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Joseph E. Holloway, Molefi Kete Asante, George Brandon, Robert L. Hall, Jessie Ruth Gaston

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An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of New World African studies. Since its original publication, the field has changed considerably. Africanisms has been explored in its broader dimensions, particularly is the area of white Africanisms. Thus, the new edition has been revised and expanded. Joseph E. Holloway has written three essays for the new volume. The first uses a transnational framework to examine how African cultural survivals have changed over time and readapted to diasporic conditions while experiencing slavery, forced…    
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List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies at California State University, Northridge, is a specialist in cross-cultural studies relating to Africa and Afro-Americana. He is a former Ford and Fulbright Scholar, and author of Liberian Diplomacy in Africa, Neither Black Nor White: The Saga of An American Family, and An Introduction to Classical African Civilizations. He is co-author (with Winifred K. Vass) of The African Heritage of American English and editor of The Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple Movement and has published widely on New World Africanisms.

Molefi Asante is a distinguished scholar and is best known for creating the discipline of Black Studies over 25 years ago. nbsp; He is the Editor for the Journal of Black Studies (Sage) and the Encyclopedia of Black Studies (Sage Reference, 12/04 nbsp; 933 units, $82k LTD). nbsp; His recent research has centered on the history and present developments of African religions.

GEORGE BRANDON is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Sociomedical Sciences at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of the City University of New York. He is the author of articles in the Journal of Caribbean Studies, the Journal of Black Studies, Oral History Review, and Griot.

Introduction
The origins of African American culture
"What Africa has given America" : African continuities in the North American diaspora
African elements in African American English
Africanisms in African American names in the United States
The case of voodoo in New Orleans
Gullah attitudes toward life and death
The sacred world of the Gullahs
African religious retentions in Florida
Sacrificial practices in Santeria, an African Cuban religion in the United States
Kongo influences on African American artistic culture
Africanisms in African American music