Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes

In this provocative study, Stephen Howe traces the sources and ancestries of the Afrocentric movement, and closely analyses the writings of its leading proponents. Hard-hitting yet subtle and scholarly in its appraisal of Afrocentric ideas, and based on wide-ranging research in the histories both of Afro-America and of Africa itself, Afrocentrism not only demolishes the mythical "history" taught by black ultra-nationalists but suggests paths towards a true historical consciousness of Africa and its diaspora.

• | Author: Stephen Howe
• | Publisher: Verso
• | Publication Date: Aug 17, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1859842283
• | ISBN-13: 9781859842287