Includes bibliographies and index.

Joseph E. Holloway -- The origins of African-American culture / Joseph E. Holloway -- African elements in African-American English / Molefi Kete Asante -- The case of voodoo in New Orleans / Jessie Gaston Mulira -- Gullah attitudes toward life and death / Margaret Washington Creel -- African religious retentions in Florida / Robert L. Hall -- Sacrificial practices in Santeria, an African-Cuban religion in the United States / George Brandon -- Kongo influences on African-American artistic culture / Robert Farris Thompson -- Africanisms in African-American music / Portia K. Maultsby -- Africanisms and the study of folklore / Beverly J. Robinson -- The African heritage of white America / John Edward Philips.

An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of New World African studies.