African, American

Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs''s Tarzan novels to the ''black Zion'' of Garvey''s Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized stage on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves. In this remarkable, panoramic work, David Peterson del ...