Encyclopedia Africana
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience edited by
Henry Louis Gates
and
Africana studies including African studies and the "Pan-African diaspora" inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois' project of an Encyclopedia Africana. Du Bois envisioned "an Encyclopedia Africana," which was to be "unashamedly Afro-Centric but not indifferent to the impact of the outside world."[1]
The first edition appeared in a single volume, of which about a third each was dedicated to North American
Afro-Latin American topics of Latin America and the Caribbean and to Africa proper. The second edition was published by Oxford University Press in five volumes, including more than 3500 entries on 3960 pages.[2][3]
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana
Enlightenment notion of Black people as devoid of civilization and the hallmarks of humanity. Due to lack of support from the established philanthropies, the project died.[5]
See also
- Afrocentricity
- Africana studies
- African studies
- African American studies
- Encarta (distributed and later incorporated the on-line version, Encarta Africana)
References
- ^ Wilson Jeremiah Moses and Cain Hope Felder: Two Scholars Discuss Afrocentrism
- ^ Encyclopedia Africana online The official website
- ^ Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Archived 2007-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Department of African American Studies, Harvard University
- Libraries & Culture- Volume 40, Number 1, Winter 2005, pp. 25-37
- ^ W. E. B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-63 HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 568, No. 1, 203-219 (2000)
- Jay Spaulding, The International Journal of African Historical Studies (2001), 147f.
External links
- Oxford University Press Information about the five-volume set from the publisher.