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S'està carregant… Kinship: A Family's Journey in Africa and Americade Philippe Wamba
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. this is only incidently a biography, author was in his late twenty's when published in 1999. More like a collection of essays on the relationships between African and African Americans. Includes chapters on history, music, religion. Seems very thorough, some repetition. I learned more about Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou's marriage to an African...things about American culture that I had overlooked. I learned that the author died at age 31 in a car accident in Africa. It would have been interesting to learn his take on an African American president. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Philippe Wamba's parents were born and raised at opposite ends of the earth. When his African American mother married his Congolese father in 1964, the family they would raise in Boston, Massachusetts, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, would become a test case of the pan-African ideal that black people around the world share common interests, common goals, and a common destiny." "In this deeply felt, bridge-building book, Wamba uses his personal background as a lens through which to view three centuries of shared history between Africans and African Americans." "Equally at home discussing King Leopold and Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey and Michael Jackson, Wamba examines the complexity of relationships within the international black community and tackles misperceptions on both sides of the ocean. He locates and argues for the instinctive kinship that exists between Africans and African Americans, which is a powerful force for freedom through-out the world."--Jacket. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)973.0496073History and Geography North America United States United States Ethnic And National Groups Other Groups African Americans African AmericansLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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