Race and the writing of history : riddling the sphinx / Maghan Keita.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction; ONE: Race and Historiography; TWO: Blackness in Ancient History: Criticism and Critique; THREE: Historiography and Black Historians; FOUR: Carter G. Woodson; FIVE: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; SIX: William Leo Hansberry; SEVEN: Frank M. Snowden, Jr.; EIGHT: Through a Glass Darkly: Afrocentrism; NINE: The Thesis and Its Refinement; TEN: Reprise: Conclusion by Way of Continuity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W.

Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals. For example, while DuBois' thoughts about Africa may be familiar to contemporary academics, those of his important precursors and contemporaries are not widely known. Similarly, although contemporary figures such as Martin Bernal, Molefi Assante, and other ""Afrocentrists"" are the subject of heated debate, such debates are rarely illuminated by an awareness of the traditions that preceded.

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