| Cultural Portrayals of African Americans: Creating an Ethnic/Racial Identity Contributor(s): Hutchinson, Janis Faye (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0897894987 ISBN-13: 9780897894982 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1997 Annotation: This collection of papers encourages social and biological scientists to question their presentations of African Americans and to recognize that afrocentricity is important in refocusing portrayals of African Americans. It contrasts the production of these cultural portrayals by the majority of the U.S. population with those by African Americans themselves. It shows the process of creating a racial identity as well as the historical background related to a new evaluation of what it is to be African American in the United States. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 96046088 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.38" W x 9.55" (0.93 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of papers encourages social and biological scientists to question their presentations of African Americans and to recognize that afrocentricity is important in refocusing portrayals of African Americans. It contrasts the production of these cultural portrayals by the majority of the U.S. population with those by African Americans themselves. It shows the process of creating a racial identity as well as the historical background related to a new evaluation of what it is to be African American in the United States. |