A Dictionary of Africanisms
Author: Gerard M. Dalgish
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1982-10-28
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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The African Heritage of American English
Author: Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words. Presenting a comprehensive accounting of African words retained from Bantu, Joseph Holloway and Winifred Vass examine the Bantu vocabulary content of the Gullah dialect of the Sea Islands; Black names in the United States; Africanisms of Bantu origin in Black English; Bantu place names in nine southern states; and Africanisms in contemporary American English. These linguistic retentions reflect the cultural patterns of groups imported to the United States, the subsequent dispersion of these groups, and their continuing influence on the shaping of American culture.
A Dictionary of African Politics
Author: Nicholas Cheeseman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 0192524828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With over 400 A-Z entries, this new dictionary provides clear and authoritative definitions of terms within the fast-growing field of African Politics. It includes coverage on elections, parties and judiciaries, but also popular protest, gender-relations, the politics of development, and Africa's international relations. Entries comprise of major events and figures within African Politics, including the East African Community and independance, as well as covering key terms of particular relevance to Africa such as neopatrimonialism, queue voting, and post-conflict power sharing. Written by a world-leading political scientist working on the area of African politics, this dictionary is an essential guide for both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics, journalists, and researchers working on African politics alike.
Dictionary of African Historical Biography
Author: Mark R. Lipschutz
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780435949105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-03-04
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 1442262931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications.
Juba to Jive
Author: Clarence Major
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on scholarly investigations and common usage, this comprehensive collection of terms, from the days of slavery to the present, is the only up-to-date record of this rich, ever-evolving language born in the African-American community and permeating every aspect of our culture.
Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage
Author: Susan Altman
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780816041268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Short entries describe places, political movements, cultures, events, and figures significant to African and African American history.
The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One
Author: Estrelda Y. Alexander
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-06-22
Total Pages: 715
ISBN-13: 1532661339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Neo-Pentecostal, and quasi-Pentecostal bodies within the United States and Canada. In addition, the dictionary contains entries on the important people, places, events, and theological and secular issues that shaped these groups over their histories, some of which go back more than a century. This and subsequent volumes will be invaluable tools for students and scholars of the history of Pentecostalism.
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Author: Lorenzo Dow Turner
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781570034527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Africa. Initially published in 1949, this groundbreaking work of Afrocentric scholarship opened American minds to a little-known culture while initiating a means for the Gullah people to reclaim and value their past. The book presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and education, offering important reminders about the subtleties and power of racial and cultural prejudice. In their introduction to the volume, Katherine Wyly Mille and Michael B. Montgomery set the text in its sociolinguistic context, explore recent developments in the celebratio
Keywords for African American Studies
Author: Erica R. Edwards
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2018-11-27
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1479888532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new vocabulary for African American Studies As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for the first time, exploring not only the history of those categories but their continued relevance in the contemporary moment. Taking up a vast array of issues such as slavery, colonialism, prison expansion, sexuality, gender, feminism, war, and popular culture, Keywords for African American Studies showcases the startling breadth that characterizes the field. Featuring an august group of contributors across the social sciences and the humanities, the keywords assembled within the pages of this volume exemplify the depth and range of scholarly inquiry into Black life in the United States. Connecting lineages of Black knowledge production to contemporary considerations of race, gender, class, and sexuality, Keywords for African American Studies provides a model for how the scholarship of the field can meet the challenges of our social world.
