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Acknowledgements | p. viii |
List of Figures | p. ix |
List of Contributors | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Myths and Historiographies, Ancient and Modern | |
Believing in Ethiopians | p. 19 |
Black Apollo? Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, volume iii, and Why Race Still Matters Patrice | p. 40 |
Greece, India, and Race among the Victorians | p. 56 |
Black Minerva: Antiquity in Antebellum African American History | p. 71 |
Black Athena before Black Athena: The Teaching of Greek and Latin at Black Colleges and Universities during the Nineteenth Century | p. 90 |
'Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God': Garveyism, Rastafari, and Antiquity | p. 106 |
Between Exodus and Egypt: Israel-Palestine and the Break-up of the Black-Jewish Alliance | p. 122 |
Beyond Culture Wars: Reconnecting African and Jewish Diasporas in the Past and the Present | p. 139 |
Egyptian Athena, African Egypt, Egyptian Africa: Martin Bernal and Contemporary African Historical Thought | p. 156 |
The Afterlives of Black Athena | p. 174 |
Classical Diaspora, Diasporic Classics | |
In the House of Libya: A Meditation | p. 191 |
Hellenism, Nationalism, Hybridity: The Invention of the Novel | p. 210 |
The Idea of Africa in Lucan | p. 225 |
Was Black Beautiful in Vandal Africa? | p. 239 |
Identifying Authority: Juan Latino, an African Ex-Slave, Professor, and Poet in Sixteenth-Century Granada | p. 258 |
John Barclay's 'Camella' Poems: Ideas of Race, Beauty, and Ugliness in Renaissance Latin Verse | p. 277 |
'Lay in Egypt's lap each borrowed crown': Gerald Massey and Late-Victorian Afrocentrism | p. 293 |
'Not Equatorial black, not Mediterranean white': Denis Williams's Other Leopards | p. 311 |
Wole Soyinka's Yoruba Tragedy: Performing Politics | p. 326 |
Mythopoeia in the Struggle against Slavery, Racism, and Exclusive Afrocentrism | p. 343 |
Dislocating Black Classicism: Classics and the Black Diaspora in the Poetry of Aimé Césaire and Kamau Brathwaite | p. 362 |
The Africanness of Classicism in the Work of Toni Morrison | p. 381 |
Afterword | p. 398 |
Conclusion | p. 414 |
References | p. 418 |
Index | p. 463 |
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