Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
Editat de Franklin W. Knight, Henry Louis Gatesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780199935796
ISBN-10: 0199935793
Pagini: 3000
Dimensiuni: 422 x 290 x 140 mm
Greutate: 7.37 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0199935793
Pagini: 3000
Dimensiuni: 422 x 290 x 140 mm
Greutate: 7.37 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography is a momentous scholarly enterprise that provides access to the biographical history and heritage of the region. It will add diversity to a general library reference collection and be a core resource for libraries in nations with African heritage.
Notă biografică
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is the author most recently of Black in Latin America and Faces of America, which expand on his critically acclaimed PBS documentaries, and Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Criticism in the African Diaspora. He is the co-editor of Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field of African American and Africana Studies. He is co-editor, with K. Anthony Appiah, of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. With Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, he is the co-editor of the eight-volume biographical encyclopedia African American National Biography.Franklin Knight is the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at John Hopkins University. In 1973, Dr. Knight joined the Hopkins faculty as part of the internationally recognized Atlantic History and Culture Program. Since that time his academic and teaching interests have remained focused on the politics, cultures and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as American slave systems. He has published numerous books, including The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism, The Modern Caribbean, co-edited with Colin A. Palmer, The Slave Societies of the Caribbean and Las Casas: An Introduction, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies to name just a few.