| Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States Civil War Cente Edition Contributor(s): Rogers, J. A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 081957516X ISBN-13: 9780819575166 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 98140653 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 8.44" W x 10.79" (1.66 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Classic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people of African ancestry. He intended these findings to be a refutation of contemporary racist beliefs about the inferiority of blacks. Rogers asserted that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius, and he publicized the great black civilizations that had flourished in Africa during antiquity. According to Rogers, many ancient African civilizations had been primal molders of Western civilization and culture. |