We Can't Go Home Again An Argument About Afrocentrism

by Walker, Clarence E.

• ISBN13: 9780195095715
• ISBN10: 0195095715
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities. But in We Can't Go Home Again, historian Clarence E. Walker puts Afrocentrism to the acid test, in a thoughtful, passionate, and often blisteringly funny analysis that melts away the pretensions of this "therapeutic mythology." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Clarence E. Walker is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Deromanticizing Black History and A Rock in a Weary Land. He lives in Davis, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Note on Usage	xv
Introduction	xvii
If Every body Was a King, Who Built the Pyramids? Afrocentrism and Black American History	1	(82)
``All God's Dangers Ain't a White Man,'' or ``Not All Knowledge Is Power''	83	(50)
Notes	133	(32)
Index	165