Encyclopedia of Africa
The Encyclopedia of Africa focuses on African history and culture with articles that cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, and countries throughout Africa--Provided by publisher.
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Weitere Autoren: Appiah, Kwame Anthony (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-533770-9
- EAN: 9780195337709
- Produktnummer: 22186219
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 1392 S.
- Masse: H32.0 cm x B25.4 cm x D19.1 cm 4'649 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 4649
Über den Autor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. earned his MA and PhD in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. summa cum laude in English literature from Yale University. Before coming to Harvard (where he served as Chair of the African American Studies Department from 1991 to 2006), he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke. His grants and honors include a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, the George Polk Award forSocial Commentary, Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Americans list, a National Humanities Medal, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Jefferson Lecture, a Visiting Fellowship at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and 44 honorary degrees. Dr. Gates is the authorof several works of literary criticism and is the Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, Series Editor of the Collected Black Writers series and of the Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, and served as Editor in Chiefwith Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham for African American Lives. He was recently named the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard. Kwame Anthony Appiah earned his BA and PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge. Before coming to Princeton, he taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard and lectured at many other institutions in the United States, Germany, Ghana and South Africa, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Dr. Appiahhas published widely in African and African American literary and cultural studies, and has previously served as Editor in Chief with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for the Dictionary of Global Culture and the Encarta Africana CD-ROM encyclopedia, which became the basis for the encyclopedia Africana published byOUP.
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