Was Afrocentrism really so common and mainstream in classical studies that this book had to be written as a response to it?
Was Afrocentrism really so common and mainstream in classical studies that this book had to be written as a response to it?
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Something doesn't need to be hegemonic in order to be criticized.
I have two opinions which can be considered "Afrocentric."
1. The human species' homeland is in Eastern Africa
2. Ancient Egypt is the place where Western civilization originated from.
Neither of these onions are particularly controversial and shouldn't be regarded as "Afrocentric".
I mean theorum is pretty damn onions I'd say
I disagree with both
I thought western civilization originated in Sumeria
This
Dont we have evidence of sumeria being the first civilization?
Both developed independently. The Greeks largely got their forms and took heavily from the Egyptians, and not the Mesopotamian states
I'd agree for the most part. There also seemed to be some influence from Anatolia and the Levant
>influence from Anatolia and the Levant
Yeah its called "Orientalizing period".
egyptians took a lot of cultural aspects from the sumerians, the horse carts and the writing technique, egyptians used pre fabricated stamps to write their glyphs just like sumerians did it before to write their language, just more refined, even the sin god is a sumerian concept adopted by the egyptians
sun god*
on top of that the first recorded semitic language is not egyptian but akkadian which originates in sumeria and is a post sumerian language meaning that by the time egypt got its first pharao Sumeria was already a strong civilization
Egyptian glyphs are an isolate. They were probably inspired by the concept of written language itself but its earliest form takes no cues from cuneiform.
Why do Amerimutts love to claim civilizations they have nothing to do with?
What did that post have to do with America you obsessed brown homosexual
Because Americans love to claim everything under the sea as "western civilization". Especially if they feel they can stroke their own ego with it.
>my culture is soo much better than western culture I'm not going to tell you what it is
Every time.
That's not what he said you dumbass.
>t. Seething cinkoid
>Ancient Egypt is the place where Western civilization originated from.
Elaborate
>Ancient Egypt is the place where Western civilization originated from.
Western civilization as we know it is derived from the Celts and Germans, with some Helleno-Roman trappings.
excellent bait
Afrocentrism has been more or less relegated to the margins (who do you ever hear espousing it but blackcel egypt search weirdos?), but there needs to be something like this directed towards certain agenda-driven historians who try to argue that Greeks & Romans were POC or that Medieval Europe had comparable levels of racial diversity to the modern United States.
How does anyone with a 7th grade understanding of history or geography not understand that Afro=/=black. Look at the goddamn Egyptians or Tunisians and tell me they look just like Kenyans or Congolese or African Americans. Also look at the gigantic desert kek
Don't you get it anon!? All people who share a continent are the same! Indians and Japanese are the same race!
>Afro=/=black
Why not when people think of Afro they think Black it's common sense.
>goddamn Egyptians or Tunisians
Literal muttoids.
> Kenyans or Congolese or African Americans.
Bruh the Kenyans and Congolese don't look like each other let alone African Americans. Some look like Nilotic/Horners.
It's an American thing.
Given that there are probably tens of millions of people who believe this shit, yeah I think it's fairly justified.
no its not you stupid fucking nagger africa has been ignored by literally all except coomers and porn addicts
>Sees generic greek/roman on the cover
discarded, anyone with study worth reading in terms of historical/scientific debate wouldn't have that it reeks of insecurity.
Afrocentrism entered the liberal curriculum in the 60s to in order to placate black groups who would threaten school staff with guns and bomb threats. It's one of the "BIG" lies that cannot be challenged.
Why do they never teach us this in school but have entire chapters dedicated to the KKK and shit?
You know why. Reality is what they declare it to be.
What book is this from?
Thanks, had never heard about this incident before
>black panther
whatever that shit is
they are pathetic
I have a book about Egypt from back in the 90s. There was a section in the introduction dedicated to Afrocentrism and how the Egyptians weren’t black so kangz shit must’ve been pretty significant at one time.
What's the point of seeing history from the perspective of Africans? Does that give a meaningful insight into anything?
It's an often manufactured history that is presented as real scholarship. Eg. One of the most enduring Afrocentric lies is that of the black Egyptian.
The author answers your question here:
https://www.historyplace.com/pointsofview/not-out.htm