In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936
(Part of the Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Series)
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In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa with an eye to recovering the emergence of a belief in "Brightest Africa"--a tradition that runs through American cultural and intellectual...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0820340294
ISBN13:9780820340296
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:260 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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