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OverviewHeres an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia Africana. Essays on such influential black figures as the writer and activist Amiri Baraka; singers Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, and Lena Horne; painter Romare Bearden; filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, and poet Maya Angelou, as well as on black cultural events throughout modern history, create a rich resource of African-American arts and letters. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kwame Anthony Appiah , Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Publisher: Running Press Imprint: Running Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.866kg ISBN: 9780762420421ISBN 10: 0762420421 Pages: 656 Publication Date: 03 January 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationKwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurence S Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princetown University. He has been Chairman of the Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and President of the Society for African Philosophy in North America. He lives in Princeton. Henry Louis Gates, Jr, is the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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