Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator. It brings the entire Pan-African experience into sharp focus, with entries ranging from "affirmative action" to "zydeco," from each of the most prominent ethnic groups in Africa to each member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Africana will provide hours of reading pleasure through its longer, interpretive essays on the religion, arts, and cultural life of Africans and of black people everywhere.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities, chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.
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Africana: a tribute to Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois,
By Francisco Bernardo Regino E. (Dominican Republic) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience - The Concise Desk Reference (Hardcover)
This encyclopedia is a valuable effort to disseminate the history of Africa, a continent depredated by the slave trade, exploiting its people and their descendants in the New World. The shame of slavery and its consequences, racism and xenophobia, emerges in its pages. But the Encyclopedia Africana is also a song of hope and a call to awaken the conscience of contemporary man. The lesson of history that presents can be summarized in the words planet and race: a single planet, Earth, for a single race, the human race. The Encyclopedia of Africa is a tribute to Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of its most prominent boosters. Francisco Bernardo Regino E., Dominican Republic.
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One of the Most Incredible Historical Encyclopedias Available,
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This review is from: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience - The Concise Desk Reference (Hardcover)
This is a phenomenally exceptional book, one of the best historical encyclopedias available. While the book is, of course, a reference book rather than an exhaustive history, Africana presents a thorough overview of the African and African American experience. The entries are comprehensive, concise, articulate, and very easy to read. If you are a student of any age studying this particular field, or simply a student studying American or world history, this book would be indispensible. I cannot highly recommend it enough. And at the price that you can buy it through Amazon, it is nothing less than a steal.
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This review is from: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience - The Concise Desk Reference (Hardcover)
The book claims to be a "concise desk reference". It does contain some 1130 pages. It does give capsules on many well-kown people of Black heritage as well as some notable events in world history pertaining to Blacks. But mostly it gives short biographical editorials of individuals around the world, devoting much of this to African Americans. Yet, the book has no mention of Prince Hall or Black masony. It devotes a very short amount to the man known throughout the world at one time as the most known person in the world, Muhammad Ali, world renouned boxing champion, among other noted things. Moreover, the book devotes more than twice as much writing to the singer Diana Ross and nearly three times as much to Queen Latifah. Again, I must note that the Scottsboro Boys matter received far less mention than that made of the entertainer Prince in the book. This book is far from a concise reference for in the field it claims. I would not recommend it.
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