NP Afrocentrism (was

[jbor]

on 15/7/02 4:48 AM, alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr at
alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr wrote:

> but how in hell can you say that
> much of african american scholars' work is baseless???

Not all "African American scholars" work in the field of "African American
Studies". (That'd be a false assumption on your behalf, but I accept that
you misstated yourself.) And not all those who work in the field of "African
American Studies" are "Afrocentrists", as Paul noted.

This is all pretty straightforward.

MalignD's point was

>> that Sheila Walker is
>> an Afrocentrist, with all that implies; i.e., at least at this stage of
>> things, a field of study many of the claims of which are grossly ahistorical
>> and patently preposterous.

It got churned up and spat out as flamebait along the way.

best

p.s. It does seem to be the case, however, that to qualify as an
Afrocentrist scholar or writer, in Shirley Walker's terms at least,  you
must be African or African-American.