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RR 2016/113 The Sage Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America Edited by Mwalimu J. Shujaa and Kenya J. Shujaa Sage Publications Thousand Oaks, CA 2015 ISBN 978 1 4833 4637 3 URL: http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-african-cultural-heritage-in-north-america Last visited February 2016 Contact publisher for pricing information Also available as a 2 vol. printed set (ISBN 978 1 4522 5821 8 £235 $375)
Keywords Africa, African Americans, Culture, Encyclopedias, History, North America
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02 2016-0031
Maya Angelou concludes her poem Still I Rise with the couplet "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave". The gifts Angelou celebrates are the cultural inheritance of the African continent played out in the Americas. That culture is well documented in this new The Sage Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Described by the publisher as an "accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States",...