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Afrotopia : the roots of African American popular history / Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Author
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 313 pages).
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Contents
Introduction -- Varieties of black historicism : issues of antimodernism and "presentism" -- From Superman to man : a history of decline -- Progress, providence, and civilization : Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, and others -- W.E.B. Du Bois and antimodernism : Section 1: Arminianism, antinomianism, and Africanity in religion ; Section 2: Barbarism, civilization, and decadence -- Afrocentrism, cosmopolitanism, and cultural literacy in the American Negro Academy -- Caliban's utopia : modernism, relativism, and primitivism -- Barbarism grafted onto decadence -- Conclusion : Afrocentrism, antimodernism, and utopia.
Summary
"Afrocentrism and its history have long been disputed and controversial. In this 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." "A level presentation in what is often a shouting match, Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History is a rich history of black intellectual life and the concept of race."--Jacket
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0511003943 (electronic bk.)
9780511003943 (electronic bk.)
9780521474085
0521474086
9780521479417 (pbk.)
052147941X (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-293) and index.
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