Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American min d - Keim, Curtis A. (Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2014)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.
Keywords: Public opinion -- United States; Africa -- Foreign public opinion, American; Africa -- In mass media -- United States