Africanisms in American culture / 
edited by Joseph E. Holloway. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  c2005. 
 - ix, 436 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Blacks in the diaspora .
 - Blacks in the diaspora. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The origins of African American culture / Joseph E. Holloway -- "What Africa has given America" : African continuities in the North American diaspora / Joseph E. Holloway -- African elements in African American culture / Molefi Kete Asante -- Africanisms in African American names in the United States / Joseph E. Holloway -- The case of voodoo in New Orleans / Jessie Ruth Gaston -- Gullah attitudes toward life and death / Margaret Washington -- The sacred world of the Gullahs / Joseph E. Holloway -- African religious retentions in Florida / Robert L. Hall -- Sacrificial practices in Santeria, an African Cuban religion in the United States / George Brandon -- Kongo influences on African American artistic culture / Robert Farris Thompson -- Africanisms in African American music / Portia K. Maultsby -- Africanisms and the study of folklore / Beverly J. Robinson -- The African heritage of white America / John Edward Philips -- The African character of African American language : insights from the Creole connection / Selase W. Williams. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0253344794 0253217490 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004020284 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--History.<br/>African Americans--Social life and customs.<br/>African diaspora.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Civilization--African influences.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185  / .A26 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973/.0496073