Not Out of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary LefkowitzSeries:New Republic BookPublish date:7/10/1997Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465098385ISBN-10:046509838XUPC:9780465098385Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, DiscriminationSize:8.36 x 5.56 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCMCFKY9Y4
Not Out of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic civilizaiton to the Africans? Mary Lefkowitz explains why politically motivated histories of the ancient world are being written and shows how...
Series: New Republic Book
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465098385ISBN-10:046509838XUPC:9780465098385Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, DiscriminationSize:8.36 x 5.56 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCMCFKY9Y4
Mary Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the author of many books on ancient Greece and Rome, including Lives of the Greek Poets and Women in Greek Myth, as well as articles for the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic. She is the coeditor of Women's Life in Greece and Rome and Black Athena Revisited.
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