Mintz, Sidney W., and Richard Price — The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (1976/1992) Source Information

Mintz, Sidney W., and Richard Price — The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (1976/1992) Source Information Authors: Sidney W. Mintz and Richard Price Full Title: The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective Edition in Vault: Beacon Press, expanded edition, 1992 Original Publication: Beacon Press, 1976 Type: Secondary Source — Creolization Theory, Plantation Social Formation, and Afro-American Culture-Making Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: mintz birth culture.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — mintz birth culture.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) — theory pass focused on creolization, kinship rebuilding, the slave sector, and Mintz/Price's use for Saint-Domingue Chapter notes: mintz birth ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created deep structures, africanisms, slave sector, and fictive kinship; strengthened creolization, moc society culture, moc historiography, and moc sources Overview This is still one of the vault's key theory books for explaining how culture got made under slavery rather than merely transported into it. Mintz and Price argue that enslaved Africans usually did not arrive in the Americas as intact social groups carrying a single stable tradition.