Afrocentrism : mythical pasts and imagined homes /

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Author / Creator:Howe, Stephen, 1958-
Imprint:London ; New York : Verso, 1998.
Description:x, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3301666
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ISBN:1859848737
9781859848739
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-326) and index.
Summary: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.
Standard no.:781859848739
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Ancestors and Influences. 1. Race: What's in a Name? 2. Pan-Africanism and Negritude. 3. African Origins and the Claim of Primacy. 4. Diasporic Images of Africa before Afrocentrism. 5. The Birth of Afrocentrism. 6. The Masonic Connection. 7. Caribbean Currents. 8. Afro-America as Nation, and as Internal Colony. 9. African Cultures and the New World
  • Pt. 2. Visions of History. 10. Hamites, Semites and Statue-Stealers. 11. The Lure of Egypt. 12. Nubia and 'Inner Africa': the Ideological Uses of African State-Building. 13. African Unity and African Philosophy. 14. Cheikh Anta Diop. 15. Martin Bernal
  • Pt. 3. Afrocentrism in the Present. 16. Wild Afrocentricity. 17. Molefi Asante: Godfather of Afrocentrism. 18. The Network, the School and the Fellow-Travellers. 19. Afrocentrism and Science. 20. Psychology, Race and Magic Melanin. 21. Polemics and Prejudices: Sex, Race, Religion and Afrocentrism.