Afrotopia, the roots of African American popular history, Wilson Jeremiah Moses
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Afrotopia, the roots of African American popular history, Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Afrotopia
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
47010418
Responsibility statement
Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Series statement
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 118Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
the roots of African American popular history
Summary
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. This is a rich history of black intellectual life and the concept of race.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of 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
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