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ISBN: 9780520287365

Published: August 1, 2017

Publisher: University of California Press

Trim: 6.00 x 9.00 Inches

Pages: 416

An examination copy of this textbook is available to qualified faculty at no charge.

Global Africa

Into the Twenty-First Century

Dorothy Hodgson, Judith Byfield

Edited by Dorothy Hodgson and Judith Byfield

The Global Square

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About the Book

Global Africa is a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world—from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly original view of a continent at the center of global historical processes rather than on the periphery. Global Africa offers fresh, complex, and insightful visions of a continent in flux.

Author

Dorothy L. Hodgson is Professor of Anthropology and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School - New Brunswick at Rutgers University. Judith A. Byfield is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Cornell University.

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