Mistaking Africa Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind

Name: Mistaking Africa Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind
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ISBN: 9780813348940

ISBN-10: 0813348943

ISBN-13: 9780813348940

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: Curtis A. Keim

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Book details

List price: $47.50
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Publication date: 8/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
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


Newspapers


Magazines


Movies


Amusement Parks


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



Where Is the Real Africa?


Troubled Africa


Helpless Africa


Unchanging Africa


Exotic Africa


Sexualized Africa


Wise Africa


Superior Africa


Where Is the Real Africa?



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


Hunting Africa



Africa in Images



Indigenous Races of the Earth



"Affectionate Curiosity of the Rosako Women"



Tintin in the Congo



Map of Central Africa



"Tarzan: Moon Beast"



"Africa. A Political Jungleï¿½



"Lose Citicorp Travelers Checks in Maputo …"



"Ankle-biting Pygmies"



"If Carlos Knows He's Half Irish,…"



"I Am African"



"Experience Africa"



"We Face Challenges All over the World"



"Jewelry With a Global Flair"



"Elegant"



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


Appendix: Learning More


Notes


Works Cited


Index