The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry, and the Politics of White Supremacy"[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness ... [and contends] that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and imperialism."--Back cover. |
Contents
Progression and Regression | 8 |
The Sociopolitical Role of Historiography | 14 |
History as Psychohistory | 20 |
Copyright | |
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