UID:
almafu_9960964511302883
Format:
1 online resource (238 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-82121-0
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9786612821219
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1-60473-294-6
Content:
Postcolonial discourses on African Diaspora history and relations have traditionally focused intensely on highlighting the common experiences and links between black Africans and African Americans. This is especially true of Afrocentric scholars and supporters who use Africa to construct and validate a monolithic, racial, and culturally essentialist worldview. Publications by Afrocentric scholars such as Molefi Asante, Marimba Ani, Maulana Karenga, and the late John Henrik Clarke have emphasized the centrality of Africa to the construction of Afrocentric essentialism. In the last fifteen years
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: Afrocentric essentialism -- Africa and the challenges of constructing identity -- Conceptual and paradigmatic utilizations and representations of Africa -- Essentialist construction of identity and pan-Africanism -- Afrocentric consciousness and historical memory -- Afrocentric essentialism and globalization.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-60473-293-8
Language:
English
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