African Roots/American Cultures

Sheila S. Walker is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, and the Annabel Irion Worsham Centenennial Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas Austin.

• Chapter 1 List of FiguresChapter 2 Translator's NotesChapter 3 Orthographic and Terminological NotesPart 4 The Africanity of Blackness and the Blackness of Whiteness in the AmericasChapter 5 Reclaiming the Black Presence in “Mainstream Culture”Chapter 6 Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert DanceChapter 7 Introduction: Are You Hip to te Jive? (Re)Writing/Righting the Pan-American DiscoursePart 8 Global Africa and the Creation of the Modern WorldChapter 9 The African Diaspora in World History and PoliticsChapter 10 The Slave Trade and the Making of the New WorldChapter 11 Africans and Economic Development in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850Part 12 African Pasts/Pan-American PresentsChapter 13 Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Transamerican IntellectualChapter 14 Same Boat, Different Stops: An African Atlantic Culinary JourneyChapter 15 Roots and Branches: Historical Patterns in African Diasporan ArtifactsChapter 16 The West Indian Carnival: International DimensionsChapter 17 The Study of New York’s African Burial Ground: Biocultural and EngagedChapter 18 It Don’t Mean a Thing If You Ain’t Got That Swing: Relationships between African and African American MusicChapter 19 Candombe, African Nations, and the Africanity of UruguayChapter 20 “Catching Sense” and the Meaning of Belonging on a South Carolina Sea IslandPart 22 Re(Dis)Covered Histories, Recreated Nations, Reconstituted Communities—Then and NowPart 22 African Diasporan Presences, Resistance, and Ways of KnowingChapter 24 New African Diasporic Communities in the United States: Community-Centered Approaches to Research and PresentationChapter 24 Demystifying Africa’s Absence in Venezuelan History and CultureChapter 25 African Concepts and Practice of the Nation and their Implications in the Modern WorldChapter 27 Ìfaradà/Ìfarigà: Black Resistance and Achievement in BrazilChapter 28 Quilombos and Rebellions in BrazilChapter 29 Stories and Images of Our People: Propositions for a FutureChapter 30 Embodied Knowledge: Articulate Movement of African American Dance PerformanceChapter 33 The Afro Populations of America's Southern Cone: Organization, Development, and Culture in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay

As cultural leaders and artists from African Diasporan societies are finally allowed to speak for themselves, adding their perspectives to those of internationally known scholars, Walker gives her readers a rich array of fresh voices in an anthology certain to redefine contemporary understandings of the African Diaspora. The new data and new theoretical perspectives offer readers a forward-looking vantage point from which to assess and understand the Americas.