Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Varieties of Black Historicism
- 3 From Superman to Man
- 4 Progress, Providence, and Civilizationism
- 5 W. E. B. Du Bois and Antimodernism
- 6 Afrocentrism, Cosmopolitanism, and Cultural Literacy in the American Negro Academy
- 7 Caliban's Utopia
- 8 Barbarism Grafted onto Decadence
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Varieties of Black Historicism
- 3 From Superman to Man
- 4 Progress, Providence, and Civilizationism
- 5 W. E. B. Du Bois and Antimodernism
- 6 Afrocentrism, Cosmopolitanism, and Cultural Literacy in the American Negro Academy
- 7 Caliban's Utopia
- 8 Barbarism Grafted onto Decadence
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
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- AfrotopiaThe Roots of African American Popular History, pp. 295 - 313Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998