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Not Out of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History

Not Out of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History

Lefkowitz, Mary

Paperback

Series: New Republic Book

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 046509838X
ISBN13: 9780465098385
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Aug 1 1997
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
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 Afrocentrist claims blatantly contradict the historical evidence. Not Out of Africa is an important book that protects and argues for the necessity of historical truths and standards in cultural education. For this new paperback edition, Mary Lefkowitz has written an epilogue in which she responds to her critics and offers topics for further discussion. She has also added supplementary notes, a bibliography with suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of names.

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