The Demise of the Inhuman
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The Demise of the Inhuman

Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism

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The Demise of the Inhuman

Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism

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Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Book Award presented by the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world, one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm, philosophically rooted in African cultures and values, fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought, such as modernism and postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and postcolonialism. In The Demise of the Inhuman, Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the "infrastructures of dominance and privilege, " arguing that Western concepts such as individualism, colonialism, race and ethnicity, universalism, and progress, are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity, she argues, can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early fifteenth century, towards a new epistemological framework that will enable a more human humanity.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781438452265
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
African American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Relevance of a Dialogue
  9. Chapter One: Context and Theory: Molefi Kete Asante and the Afrocentric Idea
  10. Chapter Two: Reason and Analysis: Africana and New Interpretations of Reality
  11. Chapter Three: Afrocentricity and Modernism: Innovative Encounters with History and Ideology
  12. Chapter Four: Afrocentricity and Postmodernism: The Moment of Truth
  13. Chapter Five: The Paradigmatic Rupture: Critical Africology
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover