The Afrocentric Idea

by Asante, Molefi Kete

• ISBN13: 9781566395953
• ISBN10: 156639595X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-07
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

This new edition of "The Afrocentric Idea" boldly confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against Molefi Kete Asante's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. Expanding on his core ideas, Asante recasts his original ideas in the tradition of provocative critiques of the established social order. 256 p.

Author Biography

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor of African-American Studies at Temple University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Dancing between Circles and Lines	p. 1
The Situation	p. 25
Rhetorical Condition as a Conceptual Field	p. 27
The Idea of a Metatheory	p. 45
African Foundations of Nommo	p. 71
The Resistance	p. 93
African American Orature and Context	p. 95
Mythoforms in African American Communication	p. 107
Rhetoric of Resistance	p. 122
Choosing Freedom	p. 138
Africa as Concept	p. 160
The Liberation	p. 171
The Search for an Afrocentric Method	p. 173
Transcendence: The Curved Line	p. 196
Notes	p. 213
Index	p. 231
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