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Author:
Keim, Curtis A.
Title:
Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American mind / Curtis Keim.
Edition:
3rd ed.
Publisher:
Westview Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xiii, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Africa--Foreign public opinion, American.
Africa--In mass media.
Public opinion--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Changing our mind about Africa -- How we learn -- The origins of "darkest Africa" -- "Our living ancestors": twentieth-century evolutionism -- Where is the real Africa? -- We should help them -- Cannibalism: no accounting for taste -- Africans live in tribes, don't they? -- Safari: beyond our wildest dreams -- Africa in images -- Race and culture: the same and the other -- From imagination to dialogue.
ISBN:
0813348951 (e-book)
9780813348957 (e-book)
0813348943 (pbk.)
9780813348940 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)857111630
LCCN:
2013005324
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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