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.