Example sentences for: africana

How can you use “africana” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When I consider the inclusion in Africana of Tupac Shakur and his cohort of the rappers, I wonder whether black academia has been hijacked by a crew of thirtysomething know-nothings who actually think this stuff is important.

  • (That's another one of those glaring omissions that make you wonder whether the editors of Africana didn't really have an agenda after all.)

  • What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.

  • You’ll see rhinos, ostriches, and antelopes living happily in the Reserva Africana, a small safari park near Cala Millor on Mallorca’s east coast.

  • Such a book as Africana simply washes the practitioners in the field in a sea of ambivalence, with a sense of lost faith, as we all stand before it a bit as Matthew Arnold stood before Dover Beach.


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