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• Title:History in Black : African-Americans in search of an ancient past / Yaacov Shavit.
  
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• Author/Creator:Shaviṭ, Yaʻaḳov, 1944-
  
• Published/Created:London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2001.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: E184.65 .S5 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: E184.65 .S5 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:African Americans--Historiography.
  Afrocentrism.
  Civilization--Egyptian influences.
  
• Description:xix, 422 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"This book is a critical study of Afrocentrist historical writing - a radical project of 'counter-history', based on racial theory, which places the 'black race' at the centre of human history, as the progenitor and inventor of ancient cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-404) and index.
  
• ISBN:0714650625 (cloth)
  0714681260 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Calling on Our Forefathers - History as Redemption and Resurrection
  1. The Foundations of Afrocentric Universal History
  2. The Revival of Ancient Historical Traditions in Black America: The Four Revised 'Ancient Models'
  3. Making-up Stories of Egypt
  4. The Egyptian Tyranny over Greece in the Bronze Age
  5. The Glory that Was Egypt: The Heliocentric Theory
  6. The Second Ancient Model: A History of Debt
  7. Ancient Egypt and the Foundation of Western Philosophy and Science
  8. The Quest for Ancient Egypt's Black Identity
  9. The Curse of Canaan and the Black Presence in the Bible
  10. The 'Noble Ethiopian': Symbol and Reality
  11. Egypt, Africa and the Nile Valley as an Afrocentric Dilemma
  12. From India to Ethiopia (Kush): The Invention of the Fictitious Kushite Empire
  13. Black Columbus and Black Natives in the New World
  14. Conclusion
  App. Josephus' Guilt and the Afrocentric Misuse of His Account.