ISBN:
978-1-4522-5821-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
African diaspora / Encyclopedias
;
Africans / North America / History / Encyclopedias
;
African diaspora
;
Africans
;
Civilization
;
Civilization / African influences
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze.
;
Kulturerbe.
;
North America / Civilization / African influences / Encyclopedias
;
Africa / History / Encyclopedias
;
Africa / Civilization / Encyclopedias
;
Africa
;
North America
;
Afrika
;
Nordamerika
;
USA.
;
Afrika.
;
Enzyklopädie
;
Schwarze
;
Kulturerbe
Abstract:
This book provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity
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