Gender and Certainty
In the early 1990s, when his bristly Afro and oversized glasses made his face, staring intently from the cover of Race Matters, afamiliar feature of the bookstores, Cornel West was asked to compare his reading of race with the Afrocentrism of Molefi Kete Asante, who was also in the news at the time....
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| Published in | Age of Fracture p. 144 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United States
Harvard University Press
01.05.2011
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In the early 1990s, when his bristly Afro and oversized glasses made his face, staring intently from the cover of Race Matters, afamiliar feature of the bookstores, Cornel West was asked to compare his reading of race with the Afrocentrism of Molefi Kete Asante, who was also in the news at the time. The two agreed, West replied, in their critiques of white supremacy and in the stress they put on the importance of self-respect among people of African descent. But there they parted. Asante posited a unified field of African culture that is “alien to me,” West said. “For |
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| ISBN: | 9780674057449 0674057449 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv1m592gq.8 |