REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION 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 postmodern 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. 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. African American Studies 256 pp.
"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."
"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 sometime." -Quarterly Journal of Speech  "Not
the least purpose of The Afrocentric Idea
is to show blacks they have an African Heritage and
history that have persisted through, and helped blacks to survive, slavery
and subsequent discrimination."
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