Title: The case against Afrocentrism
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Pan-Africanism, Race identity, African Americans, In popular culture, Blacks, Africa in popular culture, Afrocentrism, African diaspora, Afrozentrismus, African americans, race identity, Blacks, race identity, Black people
LC classification: DT15 .A35 2009