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United States--Civilization--African American influences, African Americans.
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1993
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E169.1.P553 1993eb
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973/.0496073
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United States--Civilization--African American influences, African Americans.
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Black Legacy
America's Hidden Heritage
William D. Piersen
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
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Copyright 1993 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 92-41003 ISBN 0-87023-854-X (cloth); 859-0 (pbk.)
Designed by Rebecca S. Neimark Set in Ehrhardt and Gill Sans by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Piersen, William Dillon, 1942 Black legacy: America's hidden heritage / William D. Piersen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-854-X (alk. paper). ISBN 0-87023-859-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. United StatesCivilizationAfro-American influences. 2. Afro Americans. I. Title. E169.1.P553 1993 973'.0496073dc2092-41003 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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For Charlotte and Katie
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Part I The Comforts of Job
1. Why God's Black Children Suffer
3
2. "Das Duh Way Dey Ketch Um"
35
Part II No Simple Black Folk Here
3. A Resistance Too Civilized to Notice
53
4. The Aristocratic Heritage of Black America
74
5. "Duh Root Doctuh Wuz All We Needed"
99
Part III Nigger in the Woodpile
6. The Hidden Heritage of Mardi Gras
121
7. The Mixed Bloodlines of the Early Ku Klux Klan
137
8. Mammy, Indeed!
156
Notes
191
Index
249
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PREFACE
An interesting artistic effect most of us have experienced is the way certain black and white designs can be made to contain two vastly different pictures, the observed pattern depending upon which color our mind perceives at a particular moment to be dominant. So it is with history; what the historian sees is influenced by what the historian believes is important. What would happen if we shifted our normal perspective so as to make our nation's black legacy a primary point of reference? Just as in the visual image, the patterns of American history would instantly seem to reverse themselves. Such a process would not change the history, but it would offer a flash of Afrocentric insighthow changed the world could be if only we thought differently about things, at least for a moment.
Taking the African heritage seriously can be disorienting, for it is not often (or at least not often enough) that Africans and African Americans are presented as cultural founding fathers and mothers with life-building agendas of their own. We have no trouble assuming the influence of Europe and Europeans on our history and culture, but until recently we have tended to reject the idea that the cultures of Africa could also have had significant effect.
Indeed, how could influence from Africa have survived the brutal filter of the Atlantic slave trade and the oppressions of American bondage? Moreover, given the great numbers of African cultures involved, would not African perceptions simply have canceled each other out when crushed down by the ethnocentric values of dominant Europeans? Let us assume for a moment that despite such difficulties the African cultural heritage was not destroyed, that aspects of Africa did
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