Time in the Black Experience

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Time in Africa and its Diaspora: An Introduction by Joseph K. Adjaye
'Ntangu-Tandu-Kolo: The Bantu-Kôngo Concept of Time by K.K. Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Time, Language, and the Oral Tradition: An African Perspective by Omari H. Kokole
Time, Identity and Historical Consciousness in Akan by Joseph K. Adjaye
Time and Culture among the Bamana/Mandinka and Dogon of Mali by Kassim Koné
Time and Labor in Colonial Africa: The Case of Kenya and Malawi by Alamin Mazrui and Lupenga Mphande
'Kafir' Time': Preindustrial Temporal Concepts and Labour Discipline in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Natal by Keletso E. Atkins
Time and History among a Maroon People: The Aluku by Kenneth M. Bilby
Jamaican Maroons: Time and Historical Identity by Joseph K. Adjaye
Early African-American Attitudes towards Time and Work by Mechal Sobel
Time in the African Diaspora: The Gullah Experience by Joseph E. Holloway
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About the author

Joseph K. Adjaye is Associate Professor of History in the Black Studies and History Departments of the University of Pittsburgh.

Product details

• Authors: Adjaye Joseph K.
• Assisted by: Joseph K. Adjaye (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.1994
• EAN: 9780313291180
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29118-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Africa, SCIENCE / Time, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Folklore, myths & legends, United States of America, USA, Black & Asian Studies, Time (chronology), time systems & standards, Time (chronology), time systems and standards, Caribbean Sea, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, Race and Ethnicity: African American Studies