In the 1990s Pan-Africanism has been a target of attacks by its detractors. One such wave of attacks, unleashed from Harvard University's Department of Afro-American studies, variously belitle the salience of race, deny the reality of race altogether, and trivialize or repudiate African history. This text provides comprehensive intellectual rebuttals to these attacks. It examines the role of Pan-Africanism in: providing the organizational catalyst to the efforts and achievements of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement ...
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In the 1990s Pan-Africanism has been a target of attacks by its detractors. One such wave of attacks, unleashed from Harvard University's Department of Afro-American studies, variously belitle the salience of race, deny the reality of race altogether, and trivialize or repudiate African history. This text provides comprehensive intellectual rebuttals to these attacks. It examines the role of Pan-Africanism in: providing the organizational catalyst to the efforts and achievements of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association; its role in African-Diasporan linkages; attacks on the ideology over the years by various systems; current arguments and attacks; and rebuttals to those attacks.
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