African Roots American Cultures

Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742501655

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African Roots/American Cultures by Sheila S. Walker Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217490

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Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition by Joseph E. Holloway Pdf

A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.

Author : Eugene Broadway
Publisher : Butterfly Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0692055827

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Discovering Our African Culture: African American Culture Beyond Slavery by Eugene Broadway Pdf

The book 'Discovering Our African Culture' reveals the rich African heritage every Broadway family member and every African American can know about their deep roots and culture. Four book Author Eugene Broadway takes the reader on yet another journey in history; this time going beyond the slavery of his ancestors. In this book he unearths more legacy through the: History of Africans and African Americans during the 1800s, 1700s, and even 1600s. Journey to modern-day Africa to discover his rich culture. Discovery of Ghanian cultural path and Adinkra symbolism. Examination of multicultural societies through tribal practices. Celebration of African culture traditions. Accounts from African and African American writers. Stories of royal appointments and kingship. According to the author, Mr. Broadway, "We want to give back to the entire black race and shine a spotlight on the African American heritage for the entire human race to see." Slavery is where many people think that African American history began. The fact is slavery is where our history is entangled, stripped, hidden, denied textbook pages, submerged at sea, forbidden tradition, robbed of our heritage, and much more. Take the journey with Mr. Broadway, a look beyond slavery and get a glimpse of our African American's past through our ancestors' culture.

Author : Chris S. Duvall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478004530

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The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall Pdf

After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.

Author : Sandy Donovan
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761363576

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The African American Experience by Sandy Donovan Pdf

Supplemented with quotes and engaging articles from USA TODAY, the Nation’s No. 1 Newspaper, The African American Experience shines a spotlight on African Americans and their many exciting contributions to U.S. society. From musicians and athletes to media and political leaders, African American people enrich American life. Writers such as Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison offer eye-opening glimpses into their lives and cultural history. Baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, tennis stars Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe, and golf great Tiger Woods smashed cultural and racial barriers in professional sports. Artists such as W. C. Handy, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Jackson dramatically changed the world’s musical landscape, while actor and media mogul Oprah Winfrey shaped television, film, and publishing. Political leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama wrought major shifts in U.S. society and government. Read this informative title to learn more about how African Americans contribute to the United States’ cultural mosaic, enriching our nation with a wide range of traditions, customs, and life experiences.

Author : Christopher J Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252095047

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The Creolization of American Culture by Christopher J Smith Pdf

The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performance techniques and class-inflected paths of musical apprenticeship that connected white and black practitioners. Looking closely at the bodies and instruments Mount depicts in his paintings as well as other ephemera, Christopher J. Smith traces the performance practices of African American and Anglo-European music-and-dance traditions while recovering the sounds of that world. Further, Smith uses Mount's depictions of black and white music-making to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts, showing how rivers, waterfronts, and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The "Africanization" of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsy's musical "creole synthesis," a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies, repertoires, tunes, and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music. Reading Mount's renderings of black and white musicians against a background of historical sites and practices of cross-racial interaction, Smith offers a sophisticated interrogation and reinterpretation of minstrelsy, significantly broadening historical views of black-white musical exchange.

Author : Sidney Wilfred Mintz
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807009208

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The Birth of African-American Culture by Sidney Wilfred Mintz Pdf

This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.

Author : Peter M. Rutkoff,William B. Scott
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1421418479

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Fly Away by Peter M. Rutkoff,William B. Scott Pdf

The Great Migration—the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century—shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. In Fly Away, Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott trace the ideas that inspired African Americans to abandon the South for freedom and opportunity elsewhere. Black southerners fled the Low Country of South Carolina, the mines and mills of Birmingham, Alabama, the farms of the Mississippi Delta, and the urban wards of Houston, Texas, for new opportunities in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They took with them the South’s rich traditions of religion, language, music, and art, recreating and preserving their southern identity in the churches, newspapers, jazz clubs, and neighborhoods of America’s largest cities. Rutkoff and Scott’s sweeping study explores the development and adaptation of African American culture, from its West African roots to its profound and lasting impact on mainstream America. Broad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 3300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0028658167

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Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by Anonim Pdf

This second edition is an expansion of the 1996 classic and its 2000 supplement. Whereas the first edition focused almost exclusively on the United States, this new set identifies and addresses broad themes critical to understanding the texture of the cultures, achievements, challenges, and promise of the 150 million people of African descent who live in North America, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. It is an authoritative and comprehensive information about Black history, figures, and accomplishments throughout the Americas now have a defining and current reference.

Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780062876577

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The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty Pdf

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

Author : Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052147941X

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Afrotopia by Wilson Jeremiah Moses Pdf

A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies.

Author : Omari L. Dyson,Judson L. Jeffries Ph.D.,Kevin L. Brooks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440862441

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African American Culture by Omari L. Dyson,Judson L. Jeffries Ph.D.,Kevin L. Brooks Pdf

Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States. According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identifies as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are common across mainstream American culture—in music, the arts, and entertainment; in education and religion; in sports; and in politics and business. African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs covers virtually every aspect of African American cultural expression, addressing subject matter that ranges from how African culture was preserved during slavery hundreds of years ago to the richness and complexity of African American culture in the post-Obama era. The most comprehensive reference work on African American culture to date, the multivolume set covers such topics as black contributions to literature and the arts, music and entertainment, religion, and professional sports. It also provides coverage of less-commonly addressed subjects, such as African American fashion practices and beauty culture, the development of jazz music across different eras, and African American business.

Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCSC:32106016924406

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Africanisms in American Culture by Joseph E. Holloway Pdf

A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.

Author : James Edward Smethurst
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807834633

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The African American Roots of Modernism by James Edward Smethurst Pdf

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response fr

Author : Jack Salzman,David L. Smith,Cornel West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:49015002856178

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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History by Jack Salzman,David L. Smith,Cornel West Pdf