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Author Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963.

Title The myth of the Negro past / Melville J. Herskovits ; with a new introduction by Sidney W. Mintz.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [1990]
©1990

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.049 H437    Check Shelf
Description xliii, 368 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-349) and index.
Contents The significance of Africanisms -- The search for tribal origins -- The African cultural heritage -- Enslavement and the reaction to slave status -- The acculturative process -- The contemporary scene : Africanisms in secular life -- The contemporary scence : Africanisms in religious life -- The contemporary scene : language and the arts.
Subject African Americans.
Black or African American -- history -- United States.
Culture -- United States.
Race Relations -- history -- United States.
ISBN 0807009059
9780807009055
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