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In Search of Brightest Africa - Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (Paperback)
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In Search of Brightest Africa - Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (Paperback)
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In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned
Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum
of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many
backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.
Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa
with an eye to recovering the emergence of a belief in "Brightest
Africa"--a tradition that runs through American cultural and
intellectual history with equal force to its "Dark Continent"
counterpart. Jones skillfully weaves disparate strands of
turn-of-the-century society and culture to expose a vivid trend of
cultural engagement that involved both critique and activism.
Filmmakers spoke out against the depiction of "savage" Africa in
the mass media while also initiating a countertradition of
ethnographic documentaries. Early environmentalists celebrated
Africa as a pristine continent while lamenting that its unsullied
landscape was "vanishing." New Negro political thinkers also wanted
to "save" Africa but saw its fragility in terms of imperiled human
promise. Jones illuminates both the optimism about Africa
underlying these concerns and the racist and colonial interests
these agents often nevertheless served. The book contributes to a
growing literature on the ongoing role of global exchange in
shaping the African American experience as well as debates about
the cultural place of Africa in American thought.
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