The Demise of the Inhuman : Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Relevance of a Dialogue -- Chapter One: Context and Theory: Molefi Kete Asante and the Afrocentric Idea -- Afrocentricity -- Definition -- Historical Grounds -- Westernity -- Definition -- Historical Grounds -- Chapter Two: Reason and Analysis: Africana and New Interpretations of Reality -- Where Do We Stand? -- Dialogical Methodology -- Chapter Three: Afrocentricity and Modernism: Innovative Encounters with History and Ideology -- Afrocentric Critique on Modernity and Modernism -- The Obscure History of European Modernity -- The Historical/Ideological Conditions of European "Exceptionalism -- Ideology of Race: The Scientific Method of Proof -- Roots of Modernity-The Profit Motive -- The Geopolitical Triangular Atlantic Platform -- The African Experience and the Marxist Model -- Roots of Western Capitalism and the Marxist Paradigm -- Marxist Model in African Realities -- African Critiques to Marxism -- Toward the Reclamation of African Socialism -- The Afrocentric Response to Marxism -- Blackness and Existentialism -- The Existential Problem -- The Négritude Movement -- The Idea of Individualism -- Classical African Ideals -- Chapter Four: Afrocentricity and Postmodernism: The Moment of Truth -- An Afrocentric Critique on the Postmodernist Deconstruction of Power Relations -- The Collapse of the Super Structure -- Toward an Afrocentric Critique -- The Quest for the Center -- Afrocentricity and Feminist Epistemology -- Overview of the Movement -- Feminist Scholarship -- The Concept of Gender -- Postfeminism -- Black Women on Feminism -- Black Womanism -- African and European Perspectives: Postcolonialism or Neocolonialism? -- Talking Global and Postcolonial: The Political-Economic Thrust -- The Theoretical/Conceptual Discussion -- Postcolonial Theory and Literary Criticism.

Chapter Five: The Paradigmatic Rupture: Critical Africology -- A Revolutionary Paradigm -- Afrocentric Liberating Methodology -- Conclusion: The Paradigmatic Rupture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

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