History Lesson
A Race Odyssey
Contents
Introduction............................................1
ONE A Racist Incident?.................................15
TWO Discovering Afrocentrism...........................26
THREE Two Views of Ancient History.....................45
FOUR Turning Myths into History........................58
FIVE A New Anti-Semitism...............................82
SIX Truth or Slander?..................................95
SEVEN Reparations?.....................................105
EIGHT A Racist Polemic?................................115
NINE Turning History into Fiction......................131
Epilogue................................................148
Notes...................................................161
Acknowledgments.........................................189
Index...................................................191
Chapter One
A Racist Incident?
Whenever I think about it, which is often, it becomes
harder to imagine how Wellesley College
could have been the setting for the controversy
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