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<p>Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities. But in <b>We Can't Go Home Again</b>, historian Clarence E. Walker puts Afrocentrism to the acid test, in a thoughtful, passionate, and often blisteringly funny analysis that melts away the pretensions of this "therapeutic mythology."<br> As expounded by Molefi Kete Asante, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and others, Afrocentrism encourages black Americans to discard their recent history, with its inescapable white presence, and to embrace instead an empowering vision of their African (specifically Egyptian) ancestors as the source of western civilization. Walker marshals a phalanx of serious scholarship to rout these ideas. He shows, for instance, that ancient Egyptian society was not black but a melange of ethnic groups, and questions whether, in any case, the pharaonic regime offers a model for blacks today, asking "if everybody was a King, who built the pyramids?" But for Walker, Afrocentrism is more than simply bad history—it substitutes a feel-good myth of the past for an attempt to grapple with the problems that still confront blacks in a racist so

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Author

Clarence Earl Walker

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195095715

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Philosophy

Rating

4 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14