Walker, We Can't Go Home Again - An Argument About Afrocentrism

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  • Fred van Hartesveldt Fort Valley State University

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https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.28.2.108-109

Abstract

The factual flaws in much of the writing about Afrocentrism have been exposed in the past. Clarence Walker does so again in We Can't Go Home Again, and does so effectively. In this regard he focuses particularly on the Afrocentric assertion that Egyptians were black and the wellspring of Western civilization. He makes very clear that the modem concept of race as identity simply does not apply to the variegated population of Egypt and would not have been understood there. The importance of his book, however, does not lie in renewing and expanding the critique of the factual and analytical content of Afrocentric literature.

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Published

2003-09-01

How to Cite

van Hartesveldt, Fred. 2003. “Walker, We Can’t Go Home Again - An Argument About Afrocentrism”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 28 (2):108-9. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.28.2.108-109.

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