Title: The case against Afrocentrism /
Authors: Adeleke, Tunde
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Afrocentrism; Pan-Africanism; African diaspora; African Americans Race identity; Black people Race identity; Africa In popular culture
Abstract: "Tunde Adeleke deconstructs Afrocentric essentialism by illuminating and interrogating the problematic situation of Africa as the foundation of a racialized worldwide African Diaspora. He attempts to fill an intellectual gap by analyzing the contradictions in Afrocentric representations of the continent. These include multiple, conflicting, and ambivalent portraits of Africa; the use of the continent as a global, unifying identity for all blacks; the de-emphasizing and nullification of New World acculturation; and the ahistoristic construction of a monolithic African Diaspora worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction: Afrocentric essentialism -- Africa and the challenges of constructing identity -- Conceptual and paradigmatic utilizations and representations of Africa -- Essentialist construction of identity and pan-Africanism -- Afrocentric consciousness and historical memory -- Afrocentric essentialism and globalization.