Representatives of modern multicultural, "polychrome" societies continue to demonstrate the ability and desire to distinguish colors, distinguish "their" and "others", "black" and "white"," red "and"yellow". But, as it was centuries ago, the variety of shades of each of the pvets is still often beyond the comprehension of many of them. Monograph of the Africanist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, social anthropologist D. M. Bondarenko " Shades of Black. Cultural and anthropological aspects of mutual perception and relationships between African-Americans and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in the United States" (Moscow, YASK Publishing House, 2016, 232 p. with fig.) It is devoted to the extremely complex problem of detailing the shades of one of the most significant colors in the palette of the ethno-social map of the United States. "Colored worlds" - an expression used by the ideological inspirer of pan-Africanism, the American educator William Dubois (1868-1963) as the title for one of the novels, is the best way to characterize the subject of D. M. Bondarenko's research. The monograph focuses on two worlds: the world of African-Americans and the world of Africans who immigrated to the United States. Ambivalence of such an ephemeral concept as "black community" Traditionally expressed in the division into African-Americans and all other black people, this book was more specific: it considers two groups - "black children of America" and first - or second-generation African migrants. The relevance and novelty of the study are beyond doubt. Questions of mutual perception and relations between Africans and African-Americans at different periods of time worried prominent thinkers belonging to both groups. At the beginning of the twentieth century, W. Dubois and the Jamaican public figure, founder of the World Association for the Advancement of Negroes, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), were keen to find common features, sought to draw the attention of Black Americans towards Af ... Читать далее