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Summary: Fairly balanced work on a controversial subject
Review: Like most serious African-American educators, I don't have a high opinion of so-called "Afrocentric" history. However, I do understand why many of the Black masses feel the psychological need to beleive the historical tall tales and overemphasis on Egyptian Mythology (although in reality, most of today's African-Americans are descended from West Africans).Dr. Moses does a good job of tracing the roots of afrocentric thought and I learned a lot from the solid evidence he offers. However, he could have left out the personal attacks and name calling regarding Moefi, Lefkowitz, and Karenga and discussed them strictly within the faultiness of their historical work. But other than that, it's a pretty good book.
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Summary: A very bad attempt to read minds
Review: Like most serious African-American educators, I don't have a high opinion of so-called "Afrocentric" history. However, I do understand why many of the Black masses feel the psychological need to beleive the historical tall tales and overemphasis on Egyptian Mythology (although in reality, most of today's African-Americans are descended from West Africans). Dr. Moses does a good job of tracing the roots of afrocentric thought and I learned a lot from the solid evidence he offers. However, he could have left out the personal attacks and name calling regarding Moefi, Lefkowitz, and Karenga and discussed them strictly within the faultiness of their historical work. But other than that, it's a pretty good book.
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Summary: A very bad attempt to read minds
Review: Not all African slaves came from West Africa, to the impaired minds. Africans were orignally from south and East Africa which is were Africans originated, and later migrated to West, North, North west, and North east(in no particular order) Africa. Indeed the comments from viewers and the author's need to study geography as it pertains to African ppl as a whole. Just becos most Africans were taking from West Africa doesnt take away from the other parts of Africa inwhich African negro slaves also were taking to different countries, which does not take away from the evidence of what they created and left behind, before any calamities. So, if there is this outcry from so-called black Afro-centric ppl, it is only becos ppl like this Author will go out of their way to write a lame book like this, being a kiss ass who gives this watered down interpretation of the insulting word called Afrocentricity. Indeed this Author should write a book about how the Indians are overreacting about Native American Indianism being that their majority of ppl where killed by English invaders, what! are they exaggerating as well? To mark African descendants as being Afrocentric in a negative way, is nothing more than a weak attempt by Euro scholars and their brown nosing Euro-students and Non-Euro-students to discredit African scholars who have been bringing evidence to the table and not emotional baggage. Indeed ppl, pay attention to geographical migration and overall African homogeny, before you accuse ppl who know their own kin as being a racially profiled Afrocentric. Ppl who agree with unproven ideas are worser than the ones pointing the finger. GET A LIFE!
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Summary: A model analysis of popular history
Review: This book is required reading not only for anyone interested in Afrocentrism and its history, but also for anyone interested in how "popular" history shapes cultural images, goals, and political aspirations. For those who presume that Afrocentrism is a product of postmodern relativism, this book is an important corrective: Moses demonstrates Afrocentrism's emergence (or, more accurately, the emergence of different Afrocentrisms) in the discourse of nineteenth-century African-American intellectuals. (In fact, as he points out, the key concepts of Afrocentric discourse have remained virtually unchanged since their conception.) Moses' commitment to *understanding* how Afrocentric discourse *works* produces genuine insight into how the "literate public" appropriates historical concepts for its own purposes. (He is particularly sympathetic to Afrocentrism's interest in high culture.) Moses is also willing to apportion praise and blame when due, with both Mary Lefkowitz and Maulana Karenga coming in for scathing shares of the latter. In addition to the book's scrupulous research, one must praise its elegant writing style--all too rare in academic prose these days.
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