By Melville Herskovits
Nearly fifty years in the past Melville Herskovits got down to debunk the parable that black americans don't have any cultural prior. initially released in 1941, his extraordinary learn of black background and tradition recovered a wealthy African history in non secular and secular existence, the language and humanities of the Americas.
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The quotations given in the opening pages of this discussion may be taken as typifying the point of view of most present-day students of the Negro. The African past may perhaps be considered as appearing fragmentarily in a few aspects of contemporary Negro life of the United States, but such survivals are to be studied only in the most complete antiquarian sense. African culture may be conceded a greater degree of comparative respectability than was earlier the case though, as has been seen, the point of view which Hoff- man, Tillinghast, Dowd, Mecklin, the earlier manifestations of Odum and Weather ford, and others put forward concerning the low caliber of African modes of life has by no means lost its vitality.
Pattern for the prevailing conception of slaving operations by early writers, and this has been reinforced by the tend- ency to interpret African commercial relations in terms of European methods of trading, and a lack of knowledge of the density of population in West Africa.
Yet without a conviction of the worth It is little up tensions in the A own group, this is inevitable. people that denies its past cannot escape being a prey to doubt of its value today and of its of one's potentialities for the future. N To give the Negro an appreciation of his past is to endow him with the confidence in his own position in this country and in the world which he must have, and which he can best attain when he has available a foundation of scientific fact concerning the ancestral cultures of Africa and the survivals of Africanisms in the New World.