Mistaking Africa Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind

Name: Mistaking Africa Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind
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ISBN: 9780813343860

ISBN-10: 0813343860

ISBN-13: 9780813343860

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Curtis A. Keim

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For many Americans the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals, strangely dressed "tribesmen," and impenetrable jungles. Although the occasional newspaper headline alerts us to genocide, AIDS, malaria, or civil war in Africa, most of us know very little about the continent. However we still carry strong mental images of Africa, which are reflected in American advertising, movies, amusement parks, cartoons, and many other corners of our society. Few think to question these perceptions or how they came to be so deeply lodged in the collective American consciousness. Curtis Keim's Mistaking Africa looks at the historical evolution of this mindset and…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.45" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.110
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Changing Our Mind About Africa


Speaking "African"


The Use and Misuse of Stereotypes


Stereotypes over Time


A Word About Words



How We Learn


Television Culture


The Print Media


Movies


Amusement Parks


Celebrities


Other Sources



Evolutionism



The Origins of "Darkest Africa"


Africans in Antiquity


Western Views of Africans, ca. 1400-1830


Birth of the Dark Continent


A Myth for Conquest



"Our Living Ancestors": Twentieth-Century Evolutionism


Biological Evolutionism


Evolutionism


The Primitive African


Changing Paradigms


Lingering Evolutionism



Real Africa, Wise Africa


African Cultures


Art and Artifact


Touring Africa


Selling Sex


Africans in the States


An African American Example


The Noble African



We Should Help Them


Authoritarian Help


Market Help


Conversion Help


Gift-Giving Help


Participatory Help


Military Help


The Failure of Help


Rethinking Development


Helping Out



Further Misperceptions



Cannibalism: No Accounting for Taste



Africans Live in Tribes, Don't They?


A Textbook Definition


A Word with a History


The End of the Tribe


Contemporary African Uses of Tribe


Other Tribes


African Tribes in America


Alternatives to Tribe



Safari: Beyond Our Wildest Dreams


Where the Wild Things Aren't


The Good Old Days


The Decline of the Great White Hunting Safari


The Tourist Safari: Animals in Pictures


The Safari from a Distance


The Lion Is King


Hunting Africa



Africa in Images


Black, White, and Red All Over


Africa's Got Chemistry


One Challenge per Continent, Please


Our Living Ancestors


Africa Is Dyeing


Flights of Fantasy


"Totally in the Wild"


Dances with Lions


African Salesbeasts



New Directions



Race and Culture: The Same and the Other


Race


Culture


On Being Human



From Imagination to Dialogue


Evolutionism


A Kind of Equality


An African Dialogue



Learning More


Notes


Works Cited


Index