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We can't go home again :

(Number (ISBN

0195357302

(Number (ISBN

6610527989

(Number (ISBN

9780195357301

(Number (ISBN

9786610527984

Erroneous ISBN

0195095715

Erroneous ISBN

9780195095715

Number

b785385

Title Proper

We can't go home again :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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an argument about Afrocentrism /

First Statement of Responsibility

Clarence E. Walker.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxxv, 172 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-164) and index.

Text of Note

pt. 1. If Everybody Was a King, Who Built the Pyramids? Afrocentrism and Black American History -- pt. 2. "All God's Dangers Ain't a White Man," or "Not All Knowledge Is Power."

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"As expounded by Molefi Kete Asante, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and others, Afrocentrism encourages black Americans to discard their recent history, with its inescapable white presence, and to embrace instead an empowering vision of their African (specifically Egyptian) ancestors as the source of western civilization. Walker marshals a phalanx of serious scholarship to rout these ideas. He shows, for instance, that ancient Egyptian society was not black but a melange of ethnic groups, and questions whether, in any case, the pharaonic regime offers a model for blacks today, asking, "if everybody was a King, who built the pyramids?" But for Walker, Afrocentrism is more than simply bad history - it substitutes a feel-good myth of the past for an attempt to grapple with the problems that still confront blacks in a racist society. The modern American black identity is the product of centuries of real history, as Africans and their descendents created new, hybrid cultures - mixing many African ethnic influences with native and European elements. Afrocentrism replaces this complex history with a dubious claim to distant glory." ""Afrocentrism offers not an empowering understanding of black Americans' past," Walker concludes, "but a pastiche of 'alien traditions' held together by simplistic fantasies." More to the point, this specious history denies to black Americans the dignity and power that springs from an honest understanding of their real history."--Jacket.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Title

We can't go home again.

African Americans-- History-- Philosophy.

African Americans-- Race identity.

Afrocentrism.

Black nationalism-- United States.

Civilization-- Egyptian influences.

African Americans-- Philosophy.

African Americans-- Race identity.

Afrocentrism.

Afrocentrisme.

Black nationalism.

Civilization-- Egyptian influences.

Civilization.

Race relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.

Egypt, Civilization, To 332 B.C.

United States, Race relations.

Egypt, Civilization, To 332 B.C.

Egypt.

United States.

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Edition

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Walker, Clarence Earl.

Date of Transaction

20201206231855.0

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[Book]

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