Afrotopia - The Roots of African American Popular History

Klappentext A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies. Zusammenfassung Afrocentrism and its history has long been disputed and controversial. In this important book! Wilson Moses presents a critical and nuanced view of the issues. Tracing the origins of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth century! he examines the combination of various popular mythologies! some of them mystical and sentimental! others perfectly reasonable. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Varieties of black historicism; 3. From superman to man; 4. Progress, providence, and civilization: Crummell, Douglass, and others; 5. W. E. B. Du Bois: modernism and antimodernism; 6. William H. Ferris; 7. Afrocentrism versus relativism; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Wilson Jeremiah Moses
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.1998
• EAN: 9780521474085
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47408-5
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore