Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century.(We Who Are Dark: The Philosphical Foundations of Black Solidarity)(Book review)

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ACHIEVING BLACKNESS: RACE, BLACK NATIONALISM, AND AFROCENTRISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

By Algernon Austin

Belknap Press, 2005

WE WHO ARE DARK: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BLACK SOLIDARITY

By Tommie Shelby

Verso, 2005

REFRESHING. The word comes up too often in reviews of these two books. It is my first clue that they are going to rub me the wrong way.

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When Black scholars garner the adjective "refreshing," it rarely bodes well for Black people on the whole. Ward Connerly is refreshing. ...

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