Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History

Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic civilizaiton to the Africans? Mary Lefkowitz explains why politically motivated histories of the ancient world are being written and shows how Afrocentrist claims blatantly contradict the historical evidence. Not Out of Africa is an important book that protects and argues for the necessity of historical truths and standards in cultural education. For this new paperback edition, Mary Lefkowitz has written an epilogue in which she responds to her critics and offers topics for further discussion. She has also added supplementary notes, a bibliography with suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of names.

Author: Mary Lefkowitz
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 07/10/1997
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.56w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780465098385
ISBN10: 046509838X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General
- Social Science | Discrimination

About the Author
Mary Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the author of many books on ancient Greece and Rome, including Lives of the Greek Poets and Women in Greek Myth, as well as articles for the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic. She is the coeditor of Women's Life in Greece and Rome and Black Athena Revisited.