African Presence in Early Europe

African Presence in Early Europe
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076001365308
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Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis African Presence in Early Europe by : Ivan Van Sertima

This book places into perspective the role of the African in world civilization, in particular his little known contributions to the advancement of Europe. A major essay on the evolution of the Caucasoid discusses recent scientific discoveries of the African fatherhood of man and the shift towards albinism (dropping of pigmentation) by the Grimaldi African during an ice age (the Wurm Interstadial) in Europe. The debt owed to African and Arab Moors for certain inventions usually credited to the Renaissance is discussed, as well as the much earlier Afro-Egyptian influence on Greek science and philosophy. The book is divided into six parts: The First Europeans: African Presence in the Ancient Mediterranean Isles and Mainland Greece; Africans in the European Religious Hierarchy (madonnas, saints and popes); African Presence in Western Europe; African Presence in Northern Europe; African Presence in Eastern Europe.

Black Star

Black Star
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 0956638023
ISBN-13 : 9780956638021
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Star by : Runoko Rashidi

African Europeans

African Europeans
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781541619937
ISBN-13 : 1541619935
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis African Europeans by : Olivette Otele

A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures—like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village—and the untold stories—like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.

Global African Presence

Global African Presence
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Publisher : Eworld
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1617590096
ISBN-13 : 9781617590092
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Global African Presence by : Edward Scobie

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
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Publisher : Walters Art Gallery
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 0911886788
ISBN-13 : 9780911886788
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe by : Natalie Zemon Davis

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 0521815827
ISBN-13 : 9780521815826
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Africans in Renaissance Europe by : Thomas Foster Earle

This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.

Blackening Europe

Blackening Europe
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781136072024
ISBN-13 : 1136072020
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Blackening Europe by : Heike Raphael-Hernandez

Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture as the starting point for a discussion of its influences over traditional European structures. Evidence of Europe's blackening abound, form French ministers of Hip-hop and British incarnations of "Shaft" to slavery memorial in the Netherlands and German youth sporting dreadlocks. Collecting essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and fields as diverse as history, literature, politics, social studies, art, film and music, Blackening Europe explores the implications of these cultural hybrids and extends the growing dialogues about Europe's fascination with African America.

They Came Before Columbus

They Came Before Columbus
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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106017436624
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Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis They Came Before Columbus by : Ivan Van Sertima

"The African presence in ancient America"--Jacket subtitle.

Blacks in Antiquity

Blacks in Antiquity
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0674076265
ISBN-13 : 9780674076266
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Blacks in Antiquity by : Frank M. Snowden

Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.

Afropean

Afropean
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9780141984735
ISBN-13 : 0141984732
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Afropean by : Johny Pitts

Winner of the Jhalak Prize 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning.' Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story.