Cultural Portrayals Of African Americans: Creating An Ethnic/racial Identity [Hardcover]

This collection of papers encourages social and biological scientists to question their presentations of African Americans and to recognize that afrocentricity is important in refocusing portrayals of African Americans. It contrasts the production of these cultural portrayals by the majority of the U.S. population with those by African Americans themselves. It shows the process of creating a racial identity as well as the historical background related to a new evaluation of what it is to be African American in the United States.JANIS FAYE HUTCHINSON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Houston, where she has served as Interim Director of African American Studies. She is a biological/medical anthropologist specializing in health issues among peoples of color. She is the author of numerous journal articles.

Preface
Introduction by Janis Faye Hutchinson
The Resurgence of Genetic Hypotheses to Explain Social Behavior Among Ethnic Minorities by Janis Faye Hutchinson
Tarzan in the Classroom: How Educational Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans by Sheila S. Walker with Jennifer Rasamimanana
Why Blacks Are Committed to Blackness by Rhett S. Jones
Visual Images of the Postcolonial Blues on the Corner of Toulouse and Royal: Discord and Identity in Songs Of My People by Hel?n E. Page with D. France Olivieira
African-American Cultural Nationalism by Yvonne V. Jones
Creating a Racial Identity by Janis Faye Hutchinson
Index