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History in Black : African-Americans in search of an ancient past / Yaacov Shavit.

Summary:

"This book is a critical study of Afrocentrist historical writing - a radical project of 'counter-history', based on racial theory, which places the 'black race' at the centre of human history, as the progenitor and inventor of ancient cultures."--Jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 0714650625
  • ISBN: 9780714650623
  • Physical Description: xix, 422 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: London ; Frank Cass, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-404) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Calling on Our Forefathers--History as Redemption and Resurrection -- Foundations of Afrocentric Universal History -- Revival of Ancient Historical Traditions in Black America: The Four Revised 'Ancient Models' -- Making-up Stories of Egypt -- Egyptian Tyranny over Greece in the Bronze Age -- Glory that Was Egypt: The Heliocentric Theory -- Second Ancient Model: A History of Debt -- Ancient Egypt and the Foundation of Western Philosophy and Science -- Quest for Ancient Egypt's Black Identity -- Curse of Canaan and the Black Presence in the Bible -- The 'Noble Ethiopian': Symbol and Reality -- Egypt, Africa and the Nile Valley as an Afrocentric Dilemma -- From India to Ethiopia (Kush): The Invention of the Fictitious Kushite Empire -- Black Columbus and Black Natives in the New World -- Josephus' Guilt and the Afrocentric Misuse of His Account
Subject:
African Americans > Historiography.
Afrocentrism.
Civilization > Egyptian influences.

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