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The case against Afrocentrism
Author
Title
The case against Afrocentrism / Tunde Adeleke.
ISBN
1604732938
9781604732931
9781617033315
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]
Copyright Notice Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
First printing 2009.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Summary
"Tunde Adeleke deconstructs Afrocentric essentialism by illuminating and interrogating the problematic situation of Africa as the foundation of a racialized worldwide African Diaspora. He attempts to fill an intellectual gap by analyzing the contradictions in Afrocentric representations of the continent. These include multiple, conflicting, and ambivalent portraits of Africa; the use of the continent as a global, unifying identity for all blacks; the de-emphasizing and nullification of New World acculturation; and the ahistoristic construction of a monolithic African Diaspora worldwide."--Jacket
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2023
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Afrocentric essentialism
Africa and the challenges of constructing identity
Conceptual and paradigmatic utilizations and representations of Africa
Essentialist construction of identity and pan-Africanism
Afrocentric consciousness and historical memory
Afrocentric essentialism and globalization.
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