AFRICAN, AMERICAN

A panoramic account of the role Africa has played in the American psyche, covering books, movies, music and more.Africa has long gri pped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels to the 'black Zion' of Garvey's Ba ck-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized st age on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves.