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Heresy in the University - Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals (Paperback)
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Heresy in the University - Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals (Paperback)
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One of the most controversial books to come out of the academy in
the last fifteen years is Martin Bernal's Black Athena. It has been
a true cause celebre. Afrocentrists have both praised the book and
claimed that Bernal stole from the work of black scholars to create
his study of the Afroasiastic roots of classical civilization.
Classicists feel passionately about what they perceive as an attack
from an outsider on the origins not only of ancient Greece but of
their own discipline. It seems that everyone has something to say
about the book; the question is how many really understand it. In
Heresy in the University, Jacques Berlinerblau provides an exegesis
of the contents of Black Athena, making it accessible to a wider
audience. As he clarifies and restates Bernal's opus, Berlinerblau
identifies Bernal's flaws in reasoning and gaps in evidence. He
cuts to the heart of Bernal's prose, singling out the key points of
Bernal's argument, explaining and arranging them in a cogent
manner. Berlinerblau addresses the critics' really important
objections, including his own, and links each of them to the
appropriate substantive argument in Black Athena. He goes beyond
simple summary and exposition to present the underlying --stated
and unstated--agendas of Bernal and his critics. Ultimately, he
exposes both sides and asks what the flawed reasoning from all
concerned reveals about the stakes in this key academic dispute and
what that, in turn, says about the modern academy. Jacques
Berlinerblau is an assistant professor and director of Judaic
studies at Hofstra University.
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