History in Black
Subtitle: African-Americans in search of an ancient past
By: Yaacov Shavit.
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: African Americans -- Historiography.; Afrocentrism.; Civilization -- Egyptian influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Foundations of Afrocentric Universal History; title: 2. The Revival of Ancient Historical Traditions in Black America:; title: The Four Revised 'Ancient Models'; title: 3. Making-up Stories of Egypt; title: 4. The Egyptian Tyranny over Greece in the Bronze Age; title: 5. The Glory that Was Egypt: The Heliocentric Theory; title: 6. The Second Ancient Model: A History of Debt; title: 7. Ancient Egypt and the Foundation of Western Philosophy and; title: Science; title: 8. The Quest for Ancient Egypt's Black Identity; title: 9. The Curse of Canaan and the Black Presence in the Bible; title: 10. The 'Noble Ethiopian': Symbol and Reality; title: 11. Egypt, Africa and the Nile Valley as an Afrocentric Dilemma; title: 12. From India to Ethiopia (Kush): The Invention of the Fictitious; title: Kushite Empire; title: 13. Black Columbus and Black Natives in the New World; title: 14. Conclusion; title: Appendix: Josephus' Guilt and the Afrocentric Misuse of His; title: Account; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.