Turner, Franklin and Herskovits in the Gantois House of Candomblé: The Transnational Origin of Afro-Brazilian Studies.

The essay traces the origins of African Studies in the U.S. to ethnographic, sociological, and linguistic work carried out by African American scholars in Brazil among practitioners of the Candomblé religion. More specifically, the author analyzes the interrelated work of African American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, anthropologist Melville Herskovits, and African American linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner.