![]() | In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 Subjects: Africa -- Foreign public opinion American; Public opinion -- United States; Africa -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- Africa; Africa -- Civilization; United States -- Civilization -- 1865–1918; United States -- Civilization -- 1; In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa with an eye to recovering the emergence of a belief in "Brightest Africa"--a tradition that runs through American cultural and intellectual history with equal force to its "Dark Continent" counterpart. JEANETTE EILEEN JONES is an associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. |
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