Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx - Rilegato

Keita, Maghan

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ISBN 10: 0195112741 ISBN 13: 9780195112740

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2000

Riassunto

This study examines the role of race in the construction of history and the validation of knowledge. Using Martin Bernal's Black Athena and its critiques as an entrée into the historical inquiries of African American intellectuals and many of their African counterparts, Keita engages the contested legacy of writing history in America. Ranging from 1700 BCE to the late twentieth century, he offers a new perspective on the challenge of building new historiographies and epistemologies.

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Recensione

This useful book, which is a significant contribution to Oxford University Press's Race and American Culture series, is a sophisticated defense of Afrocentrism...Indeed, Keita's analysis of Snowden's paradoxes and ironies is a substantial contribution to our existing knowledge...This excellent work complements but does not supercede older works by Wilson Jeremiah Moses and Stephen Howe-neither of whom, surprisingly, is cited in Keita's book. Nevertheless, Race and the Writing of History should be must reading for professional historians. (History: Review of New Books)

Contenuti

• Introduction
• 1: Race and Historiography
• 2: Blackness in Ancient History: Criticism and Critique
• 3: Historiography and Black Historians
• 4: Carter G. Woodson
• 5: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
• 6: William Leo Hansberry
• 7: Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
• 8: Through a Glass Darkly: Afrocentrism
• 9: The Thesis and Its Refinement
• 10: Reprise: Conclusion by Way of Continuity

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195112741
• ISBN 13: 9780195112740
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia