re Re: MDDM Gershom's non-Intervention

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

Hello Paul,

Sunday, July 14, 2002, 7:29:12 PM, you wrote:

PM> alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr wrote:

>> Mac> << Judging from Malign's last post, in addition to needing to demean African
>>
>> Mac> American studies scholars ....  >>
>>
>> Mac> I don't need to demean them.  Much of their work is baseless.  That's simply
>> Mac> true.
>>
>> what it's not only afrocentrists, now it's african american studies as
>> a whole?
>>  what the hell are you talking about?
>>

PM> African American studies is the expanding  of knowledge of the history, lifestyles,
PM> and sociocultural systems of Americans of African descent and investigating problems
PM> that have bearing on their psychological, social and economic well-being .

PM> The phenomenon of Afrocentricism would be a proper subject for African American
PM> Studies.

well thank you, i know what african american studies are, i was just
saying that you can't reduce them to afrocentrism... afrocentrism is
indeed as stupid as eurocentrism, but how in hell can you say that
much of african american scholars' work is baseless???

greg