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Author Shavit, Jacob.

Title History in Black : African-Americans in search of an ancient past / Yaacov Shavit.

Imprint London, [England] ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.0496073 Sh25h    ---  Available
Description xix, 422 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-404) and index.
Contents The foundations of Afrocentric universal history -- The revival of ancient historical traditions in Black America : the four revised ancient models -- Making-up stories of Egypt -- The Egyptian tyranny over Greece in the Bronze Age -- The glory that was Egypt : the Heliocentric theory -- The second ancient model : a history of debt -- Ancient Egypt and the foundation of Western philosophy and science -- The quest for ancient Egypt's Black identity -- The curse of Canaan and the Black presence in the Bible -- The noble Ethiopian : symbol and reality -- Egypt, Africa and the Nile Valley as an Afrocentric dilemma -- From India to Ethiopia (Kush) : the invention of the fictitious Kushite empire -- Black Columbus and Black natives in the New World.
Subject African Americans -- Historiography.
Afrocentrism.
Civilization -- Egyptian influences.
ISBN 0714682160 (pbk.)
0714650625

 
    
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