Author: Norman Phillip Roberts
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Changing Images of Africa in Some Selected American Media from 1930 to 1969
Author: Norman Phillip Roberts
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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In Search of Brightest Africa
Author: Jeannette Eileen Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa with an eye to recovering the emergence of a belief in “Brightest Africa”—a tradition that runs through American cultural and intellectual history with equal force to its “Dark Continent” counterpart. Jones skillfully weaves disparate strands of turn-of-the-century society and culture to expose a vivid trend of cultural engagement that involved both critique and activism. Filmmakers spoke out against the depiction of “savage” Africa in the mass media while also initiating a countertradition of ethnographic documentaries. Early environmentalists celebrated Africa as a pristine continent while lamenting that its unsullied landscape was “vanishing.” New Negro political thinkers also wanted to “save” Africa but saw its fragility in terms of imperiled human promise. Jones illuminates both the optimism about Africa underlying these concerns and the racist and colonial interests these agents often nevertheless served. The book contributes to a growing literature on the ongoing role of global exchange in shaping the African American experience as well as debates about the cultural place of Africa in American thought.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa with an eye to recovering the emergence of a belief in “Brightest Africa”—a tradition that runs through American cultural and intellectual history with equal force to its “Dark Continent” counterpart. Jones skillfully weaves disparate strands of turn-of-the-century society and culture to expose a vivid trend of cultural engagement that involved both critique and activism. Filmmakers spoke out against the depiction of “savage” Africa in the mass media while also initiating a countertradition of ethnographic documentaries. Early environmentalists celebrated Africa as a pristine continent while lamenting that its unsullied landscape was “vanishing.” New Negro political thinkers also wanted to “save” Africa but saw its fragility in terms of imperiled human promise. Jones illuminates both the optimism about Africa underlying these concerns and the racist and colonial interests these agents often nevertheless served. The book contributes to a growing literature on the ongoing role of global exchange in shaping the African American experience as well as debates about the cultural place of Africa in American thought.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Research in African Literatures
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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American Doctoral Dissertations on Africa, 1886-1972
Author: Anne Schneller
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Communications Media and Africa
Author: African Bibliographic Center
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Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Selected Africana Acquisitions
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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National Union Catalog
Author:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Catalog of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University Library (Evanston, Illinois) and Africana in Selected Libraries
Author: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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American Doctoral Dissertations
Author:
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Publisher:
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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