Afrocentric Idea Revised

by Molefi Asante

Overview

This new edition of The Afrocentric Idea boldly confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against Molefi Kete Asante's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. By rendering  a critique of some post-modern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations discussed in the first edition, this new edition contains lively engagements with views expressed by Mary Lefkowitz, Paul Gilroy, and Cornel West. Expanding on his core ideas, Asante has cast The Afrocentric Idea in the tradition of provocative critiques of the established social order. This is a fresh and dynamic location of culture within the context of  social change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439905623
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	363 KB

About the Author

Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair of African American Studies at Temple University, and author of several books, including African Intellectual Heritage (with Abu S. Abarry, Temple) and The Historical and  Cultural Atlas of African Americans.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Dancing between Circles and Lines

Part 1   The Situation

              Rhetorical Condition as a Conceptual Field

              The Idea of a Metatheory

              African Foundations of Nommo

Part 2   The Resistance

              African American Orature and Context

              Mythoforms in African American Communication

              Rhetoric of Resistance

              Choosing a Freedom

              Africa as Concept

Part 3   The Liberation   

              The Search for an Afrocentric Method

              Transcendence: The Curved Line

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Asante's wide range of references, his delightful examples taken from black traditions, and his sheer pleasure at discussing black culture, all combine to make his argument both cogent and important. This will be a major book."

--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chair, Afro-American Studies Department, Harvard University and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities.

"Commencing with a spirited criticism of traditional Western academic discourse, Asante's drama concludes with a discussion of a transformative African and African-American discourse that puts its participants in possession of the dynamic spirits of a distinctive African cultural experience."

--Chronicle of Higher Education

"Mr. Asante is widely regarded as a major proponent of 'Afrocentricity,' or the understanding of the black experience as an extension of African history and culture. ... He is credited with doing as much as anyone to build a theoretical base for an idea that has been around for some time."

--Quarterly Journal of Speech

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