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African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage (UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series) by Schramm, Katharina, Katharina Schramm is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage (UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series) about?
African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly “come home” to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice. She examines the varying interpretations and appropriations of significant sites (e.g. the slave forts), events (e.g. E
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Schramm, Katharina, Katharina Schramm
- Publisher
- left Coast Press; Routledge
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781598747003
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Business, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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