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African diaspora --- Afrikaanse diaspora --- Black diaspora --- Comportement selon le sexe --- Diaspora [Afrikaanse ] --- Diaspora africaine --- Gender role --- Rolpatronen [Seksuele ] --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Rôles féminins --- Rôles masculins --- Rôles sexuels --- Seksuele rolpatronen --- Sex role --- Sexe [Rôle selon le ] --- Subordination of women --- Blacks --- Sexual behavior --- Social life and customs --- DIASPORA AFRICAINE --- ROLE SELON LE SEXE --- NOIRS --- SEXUALITE --- MOEURS ET COUTUMES

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"Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) employed physical anthropology and ethnographyy to undermine racist and hierarchical ways of thinking about humanity and to underscore the value of cultural diversity. His research in West Africa, the West Indies, and South America documented the far-reaching influence of African cultures in the Americas. He founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies in 1948 at Northwestern University, and his controversial classic The Myth of the Negro past delineated African cultural influences on American blacks and showcased the vibrancy of African American culture. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his book Man and His Works. While Herskovits promoted African and African American studies, he criticized some activist black scholars, most notably Carter G. Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois, whom he considered propagandists because of their social reform orientation." "After World War II, Herskovits became an outspoken public figure, advocating African independence and attacking American policymakers who treated Africa as an object of Cold War strategy. Drawing extensively on Herskovits's private papers and published works, Jerry Gershenhorn's biography recognizes Herskovits's many contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars."--Jacket.

Self-determination, National --- African diaspora. --- Cultural relativism --- Racism in anthropology --- African Americans --- Anthropologists --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Relativism, Cultural --- Ethnology --- Ethnopsychology --- Relativity --- Anthropology --- Scientists --- Social life and customs. --- Anthropometry. --- Migrations --- Herskovits, Melville J. --- Africa, West --- Transatlantic slave trade

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Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness. As Wright traces more than a century of debate on Black subjectivity between intellectuals of African descent and white philosophers, she also highlights how feminist writers have challenged patriarchal theories of Black identity. Wright argues that three nineteenth-century American and European works addressing race-Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, G. W. F. Hegel's Philosophy of History, and Count Arthur de Gobineau's Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races-were particularly influential in shaping twentieth-century ideas about Black subjectivity. She considers these treatises in depth and describes how the revolutionary Black thinkers W. E. B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Frantz Fanon countered the theories they promulgated. She explains that while Du Bois, Césaire, Senghor, and Fanon rejected the racist ideologies of Jefferson, Hegel, and Gobineau, for the most part they did so within what remained a nationalist, patriarchal framework. Such persistent nationalist and sexist ideologies were later subverted, Wright shows, in the work of Black women writers including Carolyn Rodgers and Audre Lorde and, more recently, the British novelists Joan Riley, Naomi King, Jo Hodges, and Andrea Levy. By considering diasporic writing ranging from Du Bois to Lorde to the contemporary African novelists Simon Njami and Daniel Biyaoula, Wright reveals Black subjectivity as rich, varied, and always evolving.

Blacks --- Identity (Psychology) --- African diaspora. --- Noirs --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Africains --- Race identity. --- Identité ethnique --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Identité ethnique --- African diaspora --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Black identity --- Blackness (Race identity) --- Negritude --- Race identity of blacks --- Racial identity of blacks --- Ethnicity --- Race awareness --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Race identity --- Migrations --- Race identity of Black people --- Racial identity of Black people --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Transatlantic slave trade --- Identité (psychologie) --- À l'étranger