Afrotopia : the roots of African American popular history /

"Afrocentrism and its history have long been disputed and controversial. In this book, Wilson Moses presents a critical and nuanced view of the issues. Tracing the origins of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth century, he examines the combination of various popular mythologies, some of them myst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Temas:
Afrocentrism > United States.
African Americans > Historiography.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Afrocentrisme > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Historiographie.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
HISTORY > World.
Afrocentrism.
Zwarten.
Geschiedschrijving.
Afrocentrisme.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Varieties of black historicism : issues of antimodernism and "presentism"
  • From Superman to man : a history of decline
  • Progress, providence, and civilization : Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, and others
  • W.E.B. Du Bois and antimodernism : Section 1: Arminianism, antinomianism, and Africanity in religion ; Section 2: Barbarism, civilization, and decadence
  • Afrocentrism, cosmopolitanism, and cultural literacy in the American Negro Academy
  • Caliban's utopia : modernism, relativism, and primitivism
  • Barbarism grafted onto decadence
  • Conclusion : Afrocentrism, antimodernism, and utopia.

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