Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx

by Maghan Keita

Book Overview

Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals. For example, while DuBois' thoughts about Africa may be familiar to contemporary academics, those of his important precursors and contemporaries are not widely known. Similarly, although contemporary figures such as Martin Bernal, Molefi Assante,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195112741
• ISBN13: 9780195112740
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"