Description
The contributors work through the prisms of many disciplines, including anthropology, communications, English, ethnomusicology, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political economy, psychology, and social work. Their interpretive approaches place the many voices of popular black cultures into a global context. It affirms that black culture everywhere functions to give meaning to people’s lives by constructing identities that resist cultural, capitolist, colonial, and postcolonial domination.
About the Author
Joseph K. Adjaye is associate professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Diplomacy and Diplomats in Nineteenth-century Asante, Time in the Black Experience.
Book Information
ISBN 9780822956204
Author Joseph K. Adjaye
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press