Levine’s Black Culture and Black Consciousness, as the title suggests, devotes its attention to a people who at the time of the books publishing had been traditionally neglected and overlooked by scholars. In the 1960’s and 70’s, Levine along with other emerging scholars in the Afro-American studies field attempted to break the established mold. Levine’s text itself is significant in this movement because in tracing the birth, growth, and transformation of various elements of black culture—with a focus on the oral tradition—he acknowledges the significance and complexity of a culture that had been labeled up until that point as nonexistent.
Levine argues that once brought to the New World, although a unifying language and set of inst
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