In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936

by Jeannette Eileen Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820340294
• ISBN13: 9780820340296
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"