The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
by Sidney W. Mintz, Richard Price
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Read in October, 2007
"Important" book which I haven't the context to properly evaluate. Interesting essays, well-written, and a classic within its field as well as part of a larger and somewhat intense debate regarding what parts of "New World" or "Atlantic" culture are African and what parts are "original."
(Oh, and African-American means North, South, and Central American as well as the Caribbean in this context. It's an anthropology thing.)
(Oh, and African-American means North, South, and Central American as well as the Caribbean in this context. It's an anthropology thing.)
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Read in June, 2007
This essay examines the study of African-American culture through an analysis of methods previously employed in the field. A focus is placed on the cultural heterogeneity of African slaves and manner in which this circumstance affected the formation of African-American institutions. Mintz and Price present a multitude of opportunities for further research but do not thoroughly expand upon many in this small volume.
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Read in January, 2005
Still one of the most incisive investigations as to the origins of Afro-American culture.
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