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The case against Afrocentrism
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The case against Afrocentrism [electronic resource] / Tunde Adeleke.
ISBN
9781604732948 (ebook) :
Published
Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 223 p.)
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Summary
Adeleke deconstructs Afrocentric essentialism by illuminating and interrogating the problematic situation of Africa as the foundation of a racialised worldwide African Diaspora. It attempts to fill an intellectual gap by analysing the contradictions in representations of Afrocentrism in Africa. These include multiple, conflicting, and ambivalent portraits of Africa; the use of the continent as a global, unifying identity for all blacks; the de-emphasising and nullification of New World acculturation; and the ahistoristic construction of a monolithic African Diaspora worldwide.
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Mississippi scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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