Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 2d ed., 5 vols.DT14 2004-020222 0-19-517055-5 Africana; the encyclopedia of the African and African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. experience, 2d ed.; 5v. Title main entry. Ed. by Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954-) is a Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. and Henry Louis Gates. Oxford U. Press, [c]2005 4500 p. $525.00 Substantially larger than the first edition (1999), and with expanded references and indexing, this five-volume set covers a vast geographic area and encompasses the complex histories of Africans in Africa and the Americas. It is written for high school level readers and above and for a non-specialist audience. Slavery and the struggle for political and economic freedom and equality are central themes, and the roots of African and African-American culture in the histories of individual countries are thoroughly explored. In addition to topical entries, "interpretation" essays offer, for example, an examination of the dual tradition of African American fiction with discussion of perceptions, stereotypes, and alternative avenues for analysis. Among the topics new to this edition are African American architects, oral literature, Black classicism classicism, a term that, when applied generally, means clearness, elegance, symmetry, and repose produced by attention to traditional forms. It is sometimes synonymous with excellence or artistic quality of high distinction. in the U.S., the history of writing in Africa, Black literature in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , the transatlantic slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan database, and migrancy and African literature. |
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