Black and Gold Kristi Pretti-Frontczak it has been an elusive

it has been an elusive subject: hard to define

but what about the others

neurology and even marketing and economics

the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts

harming both mental and physical health

Black and Gold Kristi Pretti-Frontczak it has been an elusiveFor centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empires and the contemporary world made in their wake. Black and gold have thus always been conjoined and yet set in opposition: blackness as negation, gold as universal standard of value. Black & Gold is a genealogy of this seeming contradiction a global