African Roots/American Cultures Africa in the Creation of the Americas

by Walker, Sheila S.; Blakey, Michael L.; Chirimini, Tomas Olivera; Daniel, Yvonne; Dodson, Howard; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher; García, Jesus Chucho; González, Lisa Sánchez; Gottschild, Brenda Dixon; Guthrie, Patricia; Harris, Jessica B.; Harris, Joseph E.; I

• ISBN13: 9780742501652
• ISBN10: 0742501655
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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!

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Translator's Notes	xvii
Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez
Orthographic and Terminological Notes	xx
Introduction: Are You Hip to the Jive? (Re) Writing/Righting the Pan-American Discourse	1	(44)
Sheila S. Walker
Part I: The Africanity of Blackness and the Blackness of Whiteness in the Americas
Everyday Africa in New Jersey: Wonderings and Wanderings in the African Diaspora	45	(36)
Sheila S. Walker
Reclaiming the Black Presence in ``Mainstream Culture''	81	(8)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance	89	(15)
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Part II: Global Africa and the Creation of the Modern World
The African Diaspora in World History and Politics	104	(14)
Joseph E. Harris
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Modern World	118	(5)
Howard Dodson
Africans and Economic Development in the Atlantic World, 1500-1870	123	(16)
Joseph E. Inikori
Part III: African Pasts/Pan-American Presents
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: A Transamerican Intellectual	139	(14)
Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez
``It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing'': The Relationship Between African and African American Music	153	(16)
Olly Wilson
Same Boat, Different Stops: An African Atlantic Culinary Journey	169	(14)
Jessica B. Harris
Roots and Branches: Historical Patterns in African Diasporan Artifacts	183	(23)
John Michael Vlach
Cultural Passages in the African Diaspora: The West Indian Carnival	206	(16)
John O. Stewart
Part IV: Re(dis)covered Histories, Re-created Nations, Reconstituted Communities - Then and Now
The Study of New York's African Burial Ground: Biocultural and Engaged	222	(10)
Michael L. Blakey
New African Diasporic Communities in the United States: Community-Centered Approaches to Research and Presentation	232	(12)
Diana Baird N'Diaye
African Diasporan Concepts and Practices of the Nation and Their Implications in the Modern World	244	(12)
Olabiyi B. Yai
Candombe, African Nations, and the Africanity of Uruguay	256	(19)
Tomas Olivera Chirimini
``Catching Sense'' and the Meaning of Belonging on a South Carolina Sea Island	275	(9)
Patricia Guthrie
Part V: African Diasporan Presences, Resistance, and Ways of Knowing
Demystifying Africa's Absence in Venezuelan History and Culture	284	(7)
Jesus ``Chucho'' Garcia
Fariga/Ifarada: Black Resistance and Achievement in Brazil	291	(10)
Gilberto R. N. Leal
Quilombos and Rebellions in Brazil	301	(13)
Joao Jose Reis
The Afro Populations of America's Southern Cone: Organization, Development, and Culture in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay	314	(18)
Romero Jorge Rodriguez
Afro-Argentineans: ``Forgotten'' and ``Disappeared'' - Yet Still Present	332	(16)
Lucia Dominga Molina
Mario Luis Lopez
Stories and Images of Our People: Propositions for a Future	348	(4)
Gloria Rolando
Embodied Knowledge in African American Dance Performance	352	(10)
Yvonne Daniel
Index	362	(11)
About the Contributors	373