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Title:

Cultural portrayals of African Americans : creating an ethnic/racial identity / edited by Janis Faye Hutchinson.

Publisher:

Bergin & Garvey,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

x, 154 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Afro-Americans--Congresses.--Congresses.
Afro-Americans in popular culture--Congresses.
Afro-Americans in mass media--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Hutchinson, Janis Faye, 1953-

Notes:

"Based on papers presented in a symposium ... held at the national meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 29, 1990"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Creating a racial identity / Janis Faye Hutchinson. Resurgence of genetic hypotheses to explain social behavior among ethinic minorities / Janis Faye Hutchinson -- Tarzan in the classroom: how "educational films mythologize Africa and miseducate Americans / Sheila S. Walker with Jennifer Rasamimanana -- Why Blacks are committed to blackness / Rhett S. Jones -- Visual images of the postcolonial blues on the corner of Toulouse and Royal: discord and identity in Songs of My People / Helan E. Page with D. France Olivieira -- African-American cultural nationalism / Yvonne V. Jones -- Creating a racial identity / Janis Faye Hutchinson.

ISBN:

9780897894982 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0897894987 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)35650694

LCCN:

96046088

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)