Maghan Keita
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maghan Keita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maghan |
| FAMILY NAME | Keita |
| SIGNATURE | KEITA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black Athena/Black Athenians
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures …
Europeans and Africans
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Race, The Writing of History, and Culture Wars
This article argues that postmodernism undermines traditional historiographies and seeks to provide new avenues of freedom and escape from White supremacy. Indeed, the argument of this article is that new historiographies are necessary to rid intellectual discourse of the assumptions of racist theory. Consequently, the work of Du Bois and Diop, founding historiographers of a new way of viewing Africa, might be seen as an opening to a new discours…
Race and the Writing of History
Maghan Keita appears to have written this book out of an acute concern with the modern culture wars in the United States and the place of historical study in them. The book presents a historical genealogy of the controversy over Afrocentric historical writing and in particular of the debate over Martin Bernal'Black Athena (1987). Taking up Bernal'point that had he been a black scholar his ideas would have received little attention, Keita argues t…
Race and the Writing of History
Race and the Writing of History
This study examines the role of race in the construction of history and the validation of knowledge. Using Martin Bernal’s Black Athena and its critiques as an entrée into the historical inquiries of African American intellectuals and many of their African counterparts, Keita engages the contested legacy of writing history in America. Ranging from 1700 BCE to the late twentieth century, he offers a new perspective on the challenge of building new…
Deconstructing the Classical Age
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Peace Dividend
No abstract
Development, Migration and Epidemiology
No abstract
Race and the Writing of History
This study examines the role of race in the construction of history and the validation of knowledge. Using Martin Bernal’s Black Athena and its critiques as an entrée into the historical inquiries of African American intellectuals and many of their African counterparts, Keita engages the contested legacy of writing history in America. Ranging from 1700 BCE to the late twentieth century, he offers a new perspective on the challenge of building new…
Race and the Writing of History
Maghan Keita appears to have written this book out of an acute concern with the modern culture wars in the United States and the place of historical study in them. The book presents a historical genealogy of the controversy over Afrocentric historical writing and in particular of the debate over Martin Bernal'Black Athena (1987). Taking up Bernal'point that had he been a black scholar his ideas would have received little attention, Keita argues t…
Deconstructing the Classical Age
Development, Migration and Epidemiology
No abstract
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Peace Dividend
No abstract
Deconstructing the Classical Age
Race and the Writing of History
This study examines the role of race in the construction of history and the validation of knowledge. Using Martin Bernal’s Black Athena and its critiques as an entrée into the historical inquiries of African American intellectuals and many of their African counterparts, Keita engages the contested legacy of writing history in America. Ranging from 1700 BCE to the late twentieth century, he offers a new perspective on the challenge of building new…
Race, The Writing of History, and Culture Wars
This article argues that postmodernism undermines traditional historiographies and seeks to provide new avenues of freedom and escape from White supremacy. Indeed, the argument of this article is that new historiographies are necessary to rid intellectual discourse of the assumptions of racist theory. Consequently, the work of Du Bois and Diop, founding historiographers of a new way of viewing Africa, might be seen as an opening to a new discours…
Race and the Writing of History
Maghan Keita appears to have written this book out of an acute concern with the modern culture wars in the United States and the place of historical study in them. The book presents a historical genealogy of the controversy over Afrocentric historical writing and in particular of the debate over Martin Bernal'Black Athena (1987). Taking up Bernal'point that had he been a black scholar his ideas would have received little attention, Keita argues t…
Race and the Writing of History
Europeans and Africans
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Black Athena/Black Athenians
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures …
History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)