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Book SynopsisThis book is a synthesis of the principal ideas in Afrocentric thinking. It provides the reader with the major concepts, ideas, and theories useful for informed judgments about the efficacy of the theory. Furthermore, it is a call for resurgence grounded in a re-examination of African ideals.
Trade Review“An Afrocentric Manifesto is the most comprehensive response to those critics that charge Afrocentricity is a closed system. Building on the work of Cruse, Nkrumah and Karenga, Asante defines Afrocentricity as a paradigmatic intellectual perspective linking research to ethical praxis.”
Charles P. Henry, University of California, Berkeley
“In An Afrocentric Manifesto, Molefi Kete Asante has accomplished something quite extraordinary in addressing a wide range of issues shaping current discourse on Afrocentricity and related themes.”
Mekada Graham, University of Oklahoma
Table of Contents1 Introduction 1
2 Ama Mazama and Paradigmatic Discourse 9
3 Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position 31
4 In Search of an Afrocentric Historiography 55
5 Kemetic Bases: The Africanness of Ancient Egypt 68
6 The Afrocentric Idea in Education 78
7 Sustaining a Relationship to Black Studies 93
8 Afrocentricity and History 105
9 The Black Nationalist Question 122
10 Race, Brutality, and Hegemony 132
11 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post-Western Manifesto 153
References 167
Index 174
