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Article: Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History.(Review)
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- Journal of World History
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- March 22, 2001
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Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History. By WILSON JEREMIAH MOSES. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 313. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Wilson Jeremiah Moses has written a contentious history, but a useful one in Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History. There are far more issues with which to contend than to agree in this book, yet Moses has amassed an important array of facts regarding the roots of African American popular culture and his work must be taken seriously as an attempt to refashion the historiography of African culture in America. Unfortunately, he has added to the confusion that he sought to ...