African Roots/American Cultures: Africa and the Creation of the Americas - Paperback

by Sheila S. Walker (Author), Michael L. Blakey (Contribution by), Tomas Olivera Chirimini (Contribution by)

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas.

Author Biography

Sheila S Walker, PhD is a cultural anthropologist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. A professor of Anthropology, she also directed the Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the African Diaspora and the World Program at Spelman College. She is the CEO of Afrodiaspora Global LLC that shares with the public information about the Global African Diaspora based on her field research and participation in intellectual and cultural events in most of Africa and its worldwide Diaspora.