The Sage Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America

Maya Angelou concludes her poem Still I Rise with the couplet “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave”. The gifts Angelou celebrates are the cultural inheritance of the African continent played out in the Americas. That culture is well documented in this new The Sage Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Described by the publisher as an “accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States”, the Encyclopedia contains an array of articles on cultural continuity and cultural traditions rooted in...