{"id":20347,"date":"2023-05-20T02:17:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-review-curtis-keim-mistaking-africa-curiosities-and-inventions-of-the-american-mind-boulder-co-westview-press-2009\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T02:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:17:29","slug":"book-review-curtis-keim-mistaking-africa-curiosities-and-inventions-of-the-american-mind-boulder-co-westview-press-2009","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-review-curtis-keim-mistaking-africa-curiosities-and-inventions-of-the-american-mind-boulder-co-westview-press-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Curtis Keim.  Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">BOOK<br \/>\nREVIEW ASSIGNMENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Mistaking Africa:<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Curiosities and Inventions of the American<br \/>\nMind<\/i> by Curtis Keim<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Craft a 3-4 page review<br \/>\nthat answers the following question:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Consider your own<br \/>\nbeliefs, sentiments, and impressions of Africa and engage with Keim\u2019s assertions<br \/>\nregarding the ways that Americans interact with the continent.<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Do your own sentiments confirm or contradict<br \/>\n\u2013 or both \u2013 Keim\u2019s assertions?<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Explain<br \/>\nhow\/why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Grammar, spelling and<br \/>\ngeneral readability will factor into your grade, so please proofread<br \/>\nclosely.<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><b style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Papers are due at the start of class<br \/>\non Saturday, May 20th.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT &nbsp; Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind by Curtis Keim &nbsp; &nbsp; Craft a 3-4 page review that answers the following question: &nbsp; Consider your own beliefs, sentiments, and impressions of Africa and engage with Keim\u2019s assertions regarding the ways that Americans interact with the continent.&nbsp; Do your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[902],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=20347"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=20347"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=20347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}