Not out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Issue (A New Republic Book) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Not out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Issue (A New Republic Book) Book

Wellesley classics professor Mary Lefkowitz takes aim at the basic claims of leading proponents of Afro-centrism, in this expansion of her New Republic article exposing flaws in the argument that black Africans were responsible for the great civilizations of Egypt and Greece that brought praise from historians and criticism from Afrocentrists. Lefkowitz argues that the Greeks' African heritage touted by Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop is based upon a single dubious source and that Egyptians never considered themselves black Africans, in fact, that they consciously disassociated themselves from blacks. She argues that the legacy of these two cultures remains so rich even foes of European civilization want to claim that legacy for themselves.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Expanding on a New Republic piece that generated controversy, a noted classicist offers the first full rebuttal of the myth of Afrocentrism. She demonstrates that there has been no modern conspiracy among scholars to conceal the debt of Greece to Egypt and that some of the misconceptions arise from the ancient Greeks' misunderstanding of Egyptian religions.

  • 0465098371
  • 9780465098378
  • M. Lefkowitz
  • 5 March 1996
  • Basic Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
  • 4th Edition.
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