The New World Negro

by Frances S. Herskovits

Bringing together for the first time selected articles by the distinguished anthropologist, this volume presents a comprehensive survey of Herskovits' exhaustive study of the Negro in the Western Hemisphere. The author came to perceive the Afroamerican field as a laboratory in which hypotheses of the widest scope in the study of acculturation could be tested, with ethnohistory as the control factor. Moreover, he regarded acculturation as a process...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253340403
• ISBN13: 9780253340405
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher