Not Out Of Africa : How ""Afrocentrism"" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History (Paperback)

from tuckerresearch

A wonderful tome refuting Black Athena and every other Afrocentric screed ever created. A comment on what happens when political and racial considerations enter into history (and on allowing postmodernism to impinge too much on the search for objective truth, unobtainable though it may be).

from Ella_Jill

The author - then a Classics professor at Wellesley College - was galvanized into writing this book by a series of interconnected episodes which had led her to realize that students in her college were being taught some very dubious ancient history in some of the classes offered and that "hardly ...

from Cyberlibrariannyc

I bought this book after a talk given by the author while she was on her book tour. Dr. Lefkowitz exposes the lies being told in our schools in the name of political correctness. Afrocentrism is always political, but it's not always correct.

from tuckerresearch

A wonderful tome refuting Black Athena and every other Afrocentric screed ever created. A comment on what happens when political and racial considerations enter into history (and on allowing postmodernism to impinge too much on the search for objective truth, unobtainable though it may be).

from Ella_Jill

The author - then a Classics professor at Wellesley College - was galvanized into writing this book by a series of interconnected episodes which had led her to realize that students in her college were being taught some very dubious ancient history in some of the classes offered and that "hardly ...