The Black Athena Debate

Abstract This bibliography introduces sources composing the Black Athena debate, which is now in its seventeenth year. Issues in the debate include not only the origins of Western civilization and its history, but legitimacy of scholarship, historical methodology, racism, and ethnocentrism. Libraries will want to include the major sources not only for their intrinsic scholarship, but also as an illustrative example of a colorful, multifaceted, scholarly argument.

[1]  J. Lobban.  Black Athena Writes Back , 2002 .

[2]  David Chioni Moore,et al.  Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics , 2001 .

[3]  T. Kitson.  Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes, and: Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals (review) , 2001 .

[4]  J. Lobban.  Heresy in the University , 2000 .

[5]  W. J. Moses.  L. Keita's Request for Further Documentation in His Review of Afrotopia: The Roots of African-American Popular History , 2000 .

[6]  S. Howe.  Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes , 1998 .

[7]  D. Konstan.  Inventing Ancient Greece , 1997 .

[8]  D. Flory.  Racism, Black Athena, and the historiography of ancient philosophy , 1997 .

[9]  M. Lefkowitz.  Not out of Africa : how Afrocentrism became an excuse to teach myth as history , 1996 .

[10]  Jay H. Jasanoff,et al.  Word Games: The Linguistic Evidence in Black Athena , 1996 .

[11]  M. Lefkowitz.  Not out of Africa , 1996 .

[12]  Cheryl Johnson-Odim.  Comment: The Debate Over Black Athena , 1993 .

[13]  M. Bernal,et al.  Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization , 1989 .

[14]  T. Patterson.  Another Blow to Eurocentrism , 1988 .

[15]  M. Bernal.  The fabrication of ancient Greece, 1785-1985 , 1987 .

[16]  M. Bernal.  Black Athena: The African and Levantine Roots of Greece , 1985 .

[17]  R. Newill.  Rocking the Cradle , 1981 .

[18]  A. Johnston.  Intellectual Segregation , 1967, The Elementary school journal.