African Roots - American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas Book

	List of Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Translator's Notes
	Orthographic and Terminological Notes
	Introduction: Are You Hip to the Jive? (Re)Writing/Righting the Pan-American Discourse	1
Pt. I	The Africanity of Blackness and the Blackness of Whiteness in the Americas
1	Everyday Africa in New Jersey: Wonderings and Wanderings in the African Diaspora	45
2	Reclaiming the Black Presence in "Mainstream Culture"	81
3	Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance	89
Pt. II	Global Africa and the Creation of the Modern World
4	The African Diaspora in World History and Politics	104
5	The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Modern World	118
6	Africans and Economic Development in the Atlantic World, 1500-1870	123
Pt. III	African Pasts/Pan-American Presents
7	Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: A Transamerican Intellectual	139
8	"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing": The Relationship Between African and African American Music	153
9	Same Boat, Different Stops: An African Atlantic Culinary Journey	169
10	Roots and Branches: Historical Patterns in African Diasporan Artifacts	183
11	Cultural Passages in the African Diaspora: The West Indian Carnival	206
Pt. IV	Re(dis)covered Histories, Re-created Nations, Reconstituted Communities - Then and Now
12	The Study of New York's African Burial Ground: Biocultural and Engaged	222
13	New African Diasporic Communities in the United States: Community-Centered Approaches to Research and Presentation	232
14	African Diasporan Concepts and Practice of the Nation and Their Implications in the Modern World	244
15	Candombe, African Nations, and the Africanity of Uruguay	256
16	"Catching Sense" and the Meaning of Belonging on a South Carolina Sea Island	275
Pt. V	African Diasporan Presences, Resistance, and Ways of Knowing
17	Demystifying Africa's Absence in Venezuelan History and Culture	284
18	Fariga/Ifarada: Black Resistance and Achievement in Brazil	291
19	Quilombos and Rebellions in Brazil	301
20	The Afro Populations of America's Southern Cone: Organization, Development, And Culture in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay	314
21	Afro-Argentineans: "Forgotten" and "Disappeared" - Yet Still Present	332
22	Stories and Images of Our People: Propositions for a Future	348
23	Embodied Knowledge in African American Dance Performance	352
	Index	362
	About the Contributors	373