Chancellor Williams (1898–1992)
Auteur de Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Chancellor Williams
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Williams, Chancellor
- Nom légal
- Williams, Chancellor
- Date de naissance
- 1898-12-22
- Date de décès
- 1992-12-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Bennettsville, South Carolina, USA (birth)
Washington, D.C., USA - Études
- Howard University (BA|English)
Howard University (MA|History)
American University (Ph.D|History and Sociology)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 381
- Popularité
- #63,387
- Évaluation
- 4.7
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 14
Part I aims to establish a modern foundational account of Black African civilization in the same vein that the many excessive and voluminous editions have already done on Western developments (eg. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Gibbon) – full of absolutes and glorifying interpretations expressing the many conscious and unconscious biases of the historian (and reader, perhaps). Essential simply because of the dominant Western skew on general history (at the time of publication and even now) and complete lack of any popular foundational texts from other perspectives (specifically in the US) period.
Part II was much more interesting – a blunt but well written summation of the former which reads with a fluidity that I hadn't quite caught earlier on. Lots of interesting ideas here, many of them focusing on organization and scaling tactics.… (plus d'informations)