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Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts
Exploring a vast range of original stories, this book spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoples as they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources.
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Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation's pre-revolutionary past. In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper history than is apparent—that far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the Middle Ages, pasts whose legacies continue to shape the present. Exploring a vast range of original sources, Before the Revolution spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoples—Indians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, English—as they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources. Their struggles occurred in a global context and built upon the remains of what came before. Gradually and unpredictably, distinctive patterns of North American culture took shape on a continent where no one yet imagined there would be nations called the United States, Canada, or Mexico. By seeing these trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely as a prelude to independence, Richter's epic vision reveals the deepest origins of American history.
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African diaspora in the cultures of latin america, the caribbean, and the united states
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline.Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the African diaspora in the Americas can be enriched by crossing disciplinary boundaries to.
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Respecting the contributions of African Americans
\"The African American experience in America has ranged from the horrors of slavery to the election of the first African American president. Readers will uncover fascinating facts along the journey of African American history. This volume explores the discrimination African Americans have faced, highlighting the people and events that have shaped American history\"--Provided by publisher.
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Encyclopedia of African American society
The Encyclopedia of African American Society is the first comprehensive, accessible reference set in this field to give voice to the turbulent trends, past and present, that are often ignored in favour of mere facts. This two-volume encyclopedia has become a staple in collections in school, public and academic libraries.
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Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans
An introduction to African-American history from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.
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Africa in the American Imagination
In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace.Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Cultureexplores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996Sports Illustratedswimsuit issue, and Disney World, each of which repackages African visual culture for consumers. Because these cultural icons permeate American life, they represent the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study integrates approaches from art history and visual culture studies with those from culture, race, and popular culture studies to analyze this interchange. Two major threads weave throughout. One analyzes how the presentation of African visual culture in these popular culture forms conceptualizes Africa for the American public. The other investigates the way the uses of African visual culture focuses America's own self-awareness, particularly around black and white racialized identities.
In exploring the multiple meanings that \"Africa\" has in American popular culture,Africa in the American Imaginationargues that these cultural products embody multiple perspectives and speak to various sociopolitical contexts: the Cold War, Civil Rights, and contemporary eras of the United States; the apartheid and postapartheid eras of South Africa; the colonial and postcolonial eras of Ghana; and the European era of African colonization.
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African, American : from Tarzan to Dreams from my father : Africa in the US imagination
A panoramic account of the role Africa has played in the American psyche, covering books, movies, music and more.
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