Afrocentrism Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes

Name: Afrocentrism Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes
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ISBN: 9781859842287

ISBN-10: 1859842283

ISBN-13: 9781859842287

Edition: 1999

Authors: Stephen Howe

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Offering a mostly fictional history of Africa and its diaspora, centred on bizarre ideas about ancient Egypt, Howe argues that Afrocentrism is a symptom of, rather than a cure for, desperate political and economic problems.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgements


A Note on Language, Terminology and Sources


Introduction



Ancestors and Influences



Race: What's in a Name?



Pan-Africanism and Negritude



African Origins and the Claim of Primacy



Diasporic Images of Africa before Afrocentrism



The Birth of Afrocentrism



The Masonic Connection



Caribbean Currents



Afro-America as Nation, and as Internal Colony



African Cultures and the New World



Visions of History



Hamites, Semites and Statue-Stealers



The Lure of Egypt



Nubia and 'Inner Africa': the Ideological Uses of African State-Building



African Unity and African Philosophy



Cheikh Anta Diop



Martin Bernal



Afrocentrism in the Present



Wild Afrocentricity



Molefi Asante: Godfather of Afrocentrism



The Network, the School and the Fellow-Travellers



Afrocentrism and Science



Psychology, Race and Magic Melanin



Polemics and Prejudices: Sex, Race, Religion and Afrocentrism


Bibliography


Index