Holloway <br/><br/>
Africanisms in American culture /    [print] 
edited by Joseph E. Holloway. 
 - First Midland book edition. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  1991. 
 - xxi, 249 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
 - Blacks in the diaspora Midland book ;  MB 686 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> The origins of African-American culture /  African elements in African-American English /  The case of voodoo in New Orleans /  Gullah attitudes toward life and death /  African religious retentions in Florida /  Sacrificial practices in Santeria, an African-Cuban religion in the United States /  Kongo influences on African-American artistic culture /  Africanisms in African-American music /  Africanisms and the study of folklore /  The African heritage of white America /  Joseph E. Holloway --  Joseph E. Holloway --  Molefi Kete Asante --  Jessie Gaston Mulira --  Margaret Washington Creel --  Robert L. Hall --  George Brandon --  Robert Farris Thompson --  Portia K. Maultsby --  Beverly J. Robinson --  John Edward Philips. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0253206863 9780253206862 025332839X 9780253328397 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans.<br/>African Americans--Social life and customs.<br/>Culturele invloeden.<br/>Zwarten.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Civilization--African influences.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185.H745.A375 1991