Race and the Writing of History Riddling the Sphinx

Name: Race and the Writing of History Riddling the Sphinx
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ISBN: 9780195112740

ISBN-10: 0195112741

ISBN-13: 9780195112740

Edition: 2000

Authors: Maghan Keita

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Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals. For example, while DuBois' thoughts about Africa may be familiar to contemporary academics, those of his important precursors and contemporaries are not widely known. Similarly, although contemporary figures such as Martin Bernal, Molefi Assante, and other "Afrocentrists" are the subject of heated debate, such debates are rarely illuminated by an awareness of the traditions that preceded them. Race and The Writing of History redresses this imbalance, using Bernal's Black Athena and its…

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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Introduction 1. Race and Historiography 2. Blackness in Ancient History: Criticism and Critique 3. Historiography and Black Historians 4. Carter G. Woodson 5. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 6. William Leo Hansberry 7. Frank M. Snowden, Jr. 8. Through a Glass Darkly: Afrocentrism 9. The Thesis and Its Refinement 10. Reprise: Conclusion by Way of Continuity