FROM THE MELTING POT TO DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURALISM
FROM THE MELTING POT TO DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURALISM

Summary/Abstract: A close look at a map of Africa and the two Americas, first published by Janheinz Jahn in Muntu, Umrisse der neoafrikanischen Kultur (Düsseldorf-Köln: Eugen Diedrichs Verlag, 1958) reveals the striking form of Africa and South America, the obvious connection between the concave form of Western Africa and the corresponding part of the American continent, both linked by arrows indicating the spreading of the African cultural elements by means of the slave trade. Some arrows lead to the Southern, Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking America, others lead to the English-speaking states of the North. Another arrow connects New Orleans to Chicago and New York, from where the so-called "Harlem style" found its own way to Europe Along such routes the African slaves crossed the ocean, bringing with them the New World their cultural heritage.

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