Keim, Curtis A.

Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American min d / Curtis Keim. - 3rd ed. - Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2014. - xii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.

Introduction -- Changing our mind about Africa -- How we learn -- Th e origins of "darkest Africa" -- "Our living ancestors": twentieth-cent ury evolutionism -- Where is the real Africa? -- We should help them -- Cannibalism: no accounting for taste -- Africans live in tribes, don't they? -- Safari: beyond our wildest dreams -- Africa in images -- Race and culture: the same and the other -- From imagination to dialogue.

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Public opinion--United States.


Africa--Foreign public opinion, American.
Africa--In mass media--United States.

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