Symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution, 1991.
Contents:
1492: A new world view / Sylvia Wynter -- Romanus pontifex (1454) and the expansion of Europe / Valentin Y. Mudimbe -- African presence in early America / Ivan Van Sertima -- An essay on pre-Columbian contacts between the Americas and other areas, with special reference to the work of Ivan Van Sertima / David H. Kelley -- Discoveries of yesterday and today: Africa and the United States at the horizon of the year 2000 / Théophile Obenga -- Before Columbus: Portugal's African prelude to the middle passage and contribution to discourse on race and slavery / A. J. R. Russell-Wood --
Perspectives on African christianity / John Thornton -- The end of Moorish enlightenment and the beginning of the Columbian era / Jan Carew -- North American Indians and the demography of contact / Russell Thornton -- Our sciences, their science / Maurice Bazin -- New space, new time: disjunctions and context for a new world religion / Charles H. Long -- The polyrhythmic paradigm: the caribbean and the postmodern era / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Creolization in the making of the Americas / Edouard Glissant
