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Culture Summary: African Americans
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2010 • Pages:
By: Asante, Molefi K..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the African Americans. Information is presented on major aspects of African American culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- General African Americans; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Molefi Kete Asante
- This culture summary is based on the article, "African Americans" by Molefi Kete Asante, in the Encyclopedia of World Culture, Vol. 1, North America, 1991. Timothy O’Leary and David Levinson, eds. MacMillan Reference, USA. Teferi Abate Adem wrote the synopsis and indexing notes in February 2009. The demography section was updated with information from United States census 2000 in June, 2010. Professors John L. Jackson, Jr. and Deborah A. Thomas (both at the University of Pennsylvania) provided advice and suggestions for new sources. HRAF is very grateful to both.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans