Moscow: Foundation "Development of Fundamental Linguistic Research", 2016, 216 p. Nowadays, cultural differences are becoming an important factor in building economic ties, social relations, and interpersonal contacts. Moreover, culture is becoming a dangerous weapon used in political struggles, inter-communal, intra - and inter-State conflicts. The phenomenon of cultural complexity of modern states, the problematization of cultural differences and its economic background are challenges that historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers are trying to understand. In this regard, as well as in connection with the need to understand the migration problem in Russia, the appearance in Russian science of a new book devoted to the analysis of culturally determined factors of the human "hostel" is very relevant and deserves a special review. In the monograph" Shades of Black", D. M. Bondarenko examines the cultural and anthropological component of mutual perception and relationships between African-Americans and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in the United States of America. Although the book is based on materials collected in the New World, namely in the United States, the results of this study can also give food for thought to scientists studying "non-Western" societies, the East in a broad sense, since "African America" looks like a mirror to Africa. To explore these "reflections of Africa" in the life of the black community in the United States is to come closer to understanding modern American and African cultures in general. The author of the book has done a lot of work on the topic of the monograph "in the field", exploring the culture of African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States. The author of the peer-reviewed monograph also has an excellent command of "native", actually African, material: D. M. Bondarenko visited Tanzania, Nigeria, Benin, Rwanda, and Zambia with expedition research, and also studied Africans located on the terri ... Read more