Image of Africa Portrayed by White American Cultural Elites in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
The"Dark Continent"was a negative image of Africa,especially sub-Saharan Africa,created by American white cultural elites in the 19th and early 20th centuries.Since the classical times,European intellectual elites have observed and perceived Africa by self-scales,which constituted the historical origin of the"Dark Continent".From the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century,the Ameri-can white cultural elites represented by explorers,missionaries and racists began to systematically con-struct the image of Africa as the"Dark Continent"from the perspective of Africa's natural environ-ment,cultural customs and Africans under the influence of cultural centrism and ethnocentrism,serv-ing the racial oppression of African Americans by American society.
"Dark Continent"AfricaAmerican White Cultural EliteRacial Oppression
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