| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

African Voices in the African American Heritage. By Betty M. Kuyk. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xxx, 256 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-253-34204-X. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-21576-5.)

Encouraging is the thought that culture is a fundamental variable for a community to ripen an interpretative analysis of its reality. Phrased another way, authenticity refers to a people's belief systems, its criteria of processing and evaluating data, and its understanding of its relationships with other ethnic groups on a national and international tier. Betty M. Kuyk's African Voices in the African American Heritage addresses a number of issues germane to cultural memory in the Africana encounter. For composition design, the book is parceled into five chapters titled "The Middle Passage," "Into the American Community," "Voices of Survival," "Sea Island Voices," and "Africana Resonance." There are twenty-five color plate images, twelve illustrations, and six diagrams. Conjointly, the text provides narratives and conceptual approaches to examining retention of Africana culture and history, in collaboration to a functional concept of art. Kuyk uses the narrative of Sam Gadsden, the descendant of two generations of enslaved Africans, as a compass for a portion of this study. She describes and evaluates his memory concerning folklore, history, motif, and ethos.

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