The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America Festus E. Obiakor THE TEXTBOOK Chapters organized by

THE TEXTBOOK Chapters organized by body systems help students to understand the relationships between the underlying pathology and the patient assessment data

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America Festus E. Obiakor THE TEXTBOOK Chapters organized byThe Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space.