The Myth of the Negro Past
by Melville J. Herskovits
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Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.Tags
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A 1941 monograph intended to debunk the myth that African Americans lost their African culture due to their experience of slavery.
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Melville Jean Herskovits, an American anthropologist who was a student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, became a leading student of acculturation and an outstanding teacher at Northwestern University, where he founded the first U.S. program in African Studies in 1951. He did work in Surinam, Haiti, Trinidad, and Brazil, but his major research show more was on African blacks and the forced relocation of their culture to the New World. He studied religion, music, and folklore, and was particularly interested in how culture influences the arts. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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- 973.0496073 — History & geography History of North America United States United States Ethnic And National Groups Other Groups African Americans African Americans
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- HT1581 .H4 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Races
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