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by Lawrence W. Levine

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When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group pride, history, or cohesiveness, Levine uncovered a cultural treasure trove, illuminating a rich and complex African American oral tradition, including songs, proverbs, jokes, folktales, and long narrative poems called toasts--work that dated from before and after emancipation. The fact that these ideas and sources seem so commonplace now is in large part due this book and the scholarship that followed in its wake. A landmark work that was part of the "cultural turn" in American history, Black Culture and Black Consciousness profoundly influenced an entire generation of historians and continues to be read and taught. For this anniversary reissue, Levine wrote a new preface reflecting on the writing of the book and its place within intellectual trends in African American and American cultural history.

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The Africans brought to the English colonies as slaves in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries did not carry with them a network of beliefs, customs, institutions, and practices constituting what might be called with accuracy a unified "African" culture.

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  • Title Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
  • Author Lawrence W. Levine
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: thirt
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Publication date 2007-04-27
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195305692 / 0195305698
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 5.54 x 1.22 in (21.21 x 14.07 x 3.10 cm)
  • Reading level 1440
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Folklore - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007281986
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.2

About the author

The late Lawrence W. Levine was Margaret Byrne Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of History and Cultural Studies at George Mason University in Virginia. A former MacArthur fellow and a Past President of the Organization of American Historians, he was the author of a number of books, among them The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History, Highbrow/Lowbrow, and The People & the President: America's Extraordinary Conversation with FDR.
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