Product Description: Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture as the starting point for a discussion of its influences over traditional European structures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An examination of the migration of African American jazz musicians to other parts of the world from 1919 to the 21st century. It provides evidence that African American jazz musicians fared better in the diaspora than they did in America where jazz and its inventors were born. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)