On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:13:49 -0800 Louise Hitchcock
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> Cze wrote:
>
> >I'm glad someone brought up Black Athena, because I am pretty bummed about
> >the extremely simplistic way some of the ideas have been applied in
> >teaching. Of course we are all way over the 19thC - Nazi idea that Germans
> >are good because Aryans are the ancient Greeks. But is it so much better
> >to say that American black people are good *because* Africans are the
> >ancient Greeks? Bernal's problems aside, that seems to shift the whole
> >geographic resonance issue quite unjustifiably, and fades the "real"
> >Africa(s) out while privileging Greece.
>
> I've been teaching an upper division cultural pluralism class on BA for
> several years now. BA, Afrocentrism, and the issues surrounding it aren't
> about saying African Americans (AA's) are good because the ancient Greeks
> were African. This is an oversimplification.
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> Louise
>
> Louise A. Hitchcock, Ph.D.
> Research Associate
>
> Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
> UCLA
> 310-825-9639
How can anyone say that by descent from the ancient Greeks
they are "good". While the Greeks are acknowledged as great
philosophers and mathematicians they reason that they had
leisure for such pursuits was their slave-based economy.
Christine(Kat)Hopwood
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The views represnted in this post do not in any way
reflect the views of my department.
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