The case against Afrocentrism
By: Tunde Adeleke.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781604732931
Subjects: Afrocentrism; Pan-Africanism; African diaspora; African Americans -- Race identity; Blacks -- Race identity; Africa -- In popular culture
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Afrocentric essentialism; title: Africa and the challenges of constructing identity; title: Conceptual and paradigmatic utilizations and representations of Africa; title: Essentialist construction of identity and pan-Africanism; title: Afrocentric consciousness and historical memory; title: Afrocentric essentialism and globalization.