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Afro-Americans
Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1980 • Pages: 5-23
By: Holt, Thomas C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source provides an excellent summary of Afro-American culture and society in the United States from the earliest settlement of Africans in North America in 1619, when a Dutch ship sold 20 Blacks as slaves to the English colonists in Jamestown, to about 1980. Primary topics of discussion in this work deal with the Black African heritage, the period of slavery, the emancipation and post-emancipation periods (including specific information on the development of the Black church, internal migrations, and the Afro-American literary renaissance), the second reconstruction (covering various aspects of race relations, discrimination, the development of Black nationalism and the civil rights movement), and finally, a section dealing with Black achievement in the last half of the 20th century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Slavery
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Political movements
- Education system
- Literature
- Sociocultural trends
- Citizenship
- Cultural identity and pride
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas C. Holt
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80017756
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans