Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes

In this provocative study, Stephen Howe traces the sources and ancestries of the Afrocentric movement, and closely analyses the writings of its leading proponents. Hard-hitting yet subtle and scholarly in its appraisal of Afrocentric ideas, and based on wide-ranging research in the histories both of Afro-America and of Africa itself, Afrocentrism not only demolishes the mythical "history" taught by black ultra-nationalists but suggests paths towards a true historical consciousness of Africa and its diaspora.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/17/1999
ISBN: 9781859842287
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 6.20h x 9.20w x 0.90d