Race and the writing of history : riddling the sphinx / Maghan Keita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keita, Maghan, author.

Series:

Race and American culture.

Oxford scholarship online.

Race and American culture

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Historiography.

African Americans.

Black people--Historiography.

Black people.

Historiography--United States.

Historiography.

Culture conflict--United States.

Culture conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the role of race in the construction of history. Using the historical inquiries of African American and African intellectuals, Keita analyzes the writing of history in America. Ranging from 1700 BCE to the 1990s, he offers the challenge of building new historiographies.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; ONE: Race and Historiography; TWO: Blackness in Ancient History: Criticism and Critique; THREE: Historiography and Black Historians; FOUR: Carter G. Woodson; FIVE: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; SIX: William Leo Hansberry; SEVEN: Frank M. Snowden, Jr.; EIGHT: Through a Glass Darkly: Afrocentrism; NINE: The Thesis and Its Refinement; TEN: Reprise: Conclusion by Way of Continuity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771565-6

1-280-45369-9

1-4237-4225-7

0-19-535459-1

1-60256-181-8

OCLC:

437154853