Black athena volume 16/21/2023 ![]() However, the resultant Afrocentric historicist framing of Africa, as Reacting to subordination and marginalization, modernīlack intellectuals, borrowing from the past, have equally invoked Africa in their quest for a useableĪnd instrumental historical past with which to counteract the Eurocentric constructions of Africa had functioned both as the justification for enslavementĪnd racial discrimination for the dominant white society, and as the counter-hegemonic weapon of ![]() ![]() New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,Īfrica and Afrocentric Historicism: A CritiqueĪfrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Historiography, Diaspora, Mis-Education, Pan-AfricanismĪBSTRACT: Since the dawn of slavery in America, black activists have used Africa to construct a countervailingįrame of resistance to oppression. ![]() The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. ![]()
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