Mintz,Sidney W. (Author) and Price,Richard (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
Boston: Beacon Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
121 p, This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past; Originally published: An anthropological approach to the Afro-American past. Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1976. (ISHI occasional papers in social change ; no. 2)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
472 p, The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants, black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve dramatize the vicissitudes of power.