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The Case Against Afrocentrism

The Case Against Afrocentrism

Adeleke, Tunde

Hardcover

Black American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1604732938
ISBN13: 9781604732931
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Jul 23 2009
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A shot across the bow of Pan-African claims of a unified African culture Postcolonial discourses on African Diaspora history and relations have traditionally focused intensely on highlighting the common experiences and links between black Africans and African Americans. This is especially true of Afrocentric scholars and supporters who use Africa to construct and validate a monolithic, racial, and culturally essentialist worldview. Publications by Afrocentric scholars such as Molefi Asante, Marimba Ani, Maulana Karenga, and the late John Henrik Clarke have emphasized the centrality of Africa to the construction of Afrocentric essentialism. In the last fifteen years, however, countervailing critical scholarship has challenged essentialist interpretations of Diaspora history. Critics such as Stephen Howe, Yaacov Shavit, and Clarence Walker have questioned and refuted the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of Afrocentric essentialist ideology. 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. Tunde Adeleke is the director of the African and African American Studies Program at Iowa State University. He is the author of Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany (University Press of Mississippi), and UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission.

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