Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University
Professor, Chair of the Department of African and African American
Studies, and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African
and African American Research, Harvard University. Professor Gates
is well known as an innovator in the field of African American
studies and as the author of numerous works, including America
Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans,
The Trials of Phillis Wheatly, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Black Man. Gates also co-edited African American Lives, a
one-volume collection of biographies that precedes the upcoming,
eight-volume African American National
Biography.
Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Lawrence S. Rockefeller Professor of
Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton
University. He is the author of Assertion and Conditionals, For
Truth in Semantics, and In My Father's House: Africa in the
Philosophy of Culture (OUP 1992). Appiah is also a novelist and
poet and he recently collaborated with his mother to compile a
collection of proverbs from his homeland, Asante, Ghana.
"Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work
not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also
merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college
collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW
"Updated and greatly expanded.... Notable for its global coverage
beyond just the western perspective.... Recommended."-Booklist,
Starred Review
"Expansive resource.... Plentiful cross-references.... Beautiful
color photos and maps.... Superb set." - Library Journal, Starred
Review
"[A] worthy effort. It greatly expands, updates, and corrects the
1999 edition.... This is an important work....
Recommended."--Choice
"Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work
not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also
merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college
collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW
"Appiah and Gates assembled a distinguished advisory board and
recruited 270 scholars to write the entries.... An important
work.... Recommended."--Choice
"Updated and greatly expanded....While other reference sources
generally focus on either Africa or the U.S., Africana is notable
for its global coverage beyond just the western
perspective....Recommended for college and university libraries or
any library needing to update its old edition."--Booklist STARRED
REVIEW
"Accompanied by beautiful color photos and maps the wide-ranging
entries cover individuals, events, places, ethnic groups,
organizations, movements, and countries from both the American and
African continents and vary in length from a biographical paragraph
to a 30-page expository on slavery and slave rebellions.... An
inclusive subject bibliography, plentiful cross-references, and a
subject/name index make for useful additions to this superb set....
This more
expansive resource deals with numerous topics about people of
African descent throughout the world, from African American
architects to Dominican-Haitian relations."--Library Journal
STARRED REVIEW
"Substantially larger than the first edition, and with expanded
references and indexing, this five-volume set covers a vast
geographic area and encompasses the complex histories of Africans
in Africa and the Americas."--Reference & Research Library Book
News
Praise for the First Edition:
"Bursting with information and enhanced by contributions from its
illustrious advisory board, which includes Jamaica Kincaid, Nell
Irvin Painter, Cornel West and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, this
book belongs on every family's reference shelf."--Publishers
Weekly
"Africana will be a very useful tool, and may even set new
standards and change attitudes about the African and
African-American experience."--The New York Times Book Review
"The editors have admirably fulfilled the dream of African American
scholar and leader W. E. B. Du Bois, who worked for much of his
life to create such a monument. Highly recommended."--Library
Journal
"Many other reference books of African Americans provide
information on the transatlantic slave trade and some provide
information on selected cultural practices and folkways that
Africans infused into American culture, but Africana holds a unique
place among reference works by bridging the Atlantic in numerous
ways."--Booklist
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