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Fact, Fiction, and Feel-good History.(evaluating Afrocentrism)
Women's Quarterly
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January 1, 2001
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Professor Mary Lefkowitz talks with Charlotte Hays
WAS SOCRATES BLACK? Was Cleopatra an Egyptian nationalist? Was wandering-poet Homer educated in Egypt? Afro-centrists say yes. Wellesley professor Mary Lefkowitz, author of Not Out of Africa, says this is myth. TWQ editor Charlotte Hays recently spoke with Professor Lefkowitz about the perils of treating myth as history.
TWQ: Who started the trend of interpreting ancient history and literature from an Afro-centric perspective and why did it start?
LEFKOWITZ: I'm not sure that it can be traced to any ...
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