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Identifies stereotypes used to support racism, examines the misconception that Blacks had been stripped of their cultural heritage by slavery, and shows the influence of African culture on modern Black America
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Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.
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