The Afrocentric Idea (Revised and Expanded)

by Molefi Kete Asante | Temple University Press (1998)

Summary

Confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against the author's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. Rendering a critique of some postmodern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations, this title contains engagements with views expressed by Mary Lefkowitz, Paul Gilroy, and Cornel West.

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  • Asante is “one of America’s top 100 leading thinkers.

    —Utne Reader

  • Asante, a sixth-generation American descended from enslaved Africans, has been a guiding light in African American studies.

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  • Molefi Kete Asante is a seminal thinker.

    —Cornel West, Princeton University