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Author Diop, Cheikh Anta

Title The African Origin of Civilization : Myth or Reality
Published Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (558 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE: The Meaning of Our Work; CHAPTER I: What Were the Egyptians?; CHAPTER II: Birth of the Negro Myth; CHAPTER III: Modern Falsification of History; CHAPTER IV: Could Egyptian Civilization Have Originated in the Delta?; CHAPTER V: Could Egyptian Civilization Be of Asian Origin?; CHAPTER VI: The Egyptian Race as Seen and Treated by Anthropologists; CHAPTER VII: Arguments Supporting a Negro Origin; CHAPTER VIII: Arguments Opposing a Negro Origin; CHAPTER IX: Peopling of Africa from the Nile Valley
CHAPTER X: Political and Social Evolution of Ancient EgyptCHAPTER XI: Contribution of Ethiopia-Nubia and Egypt; CHAPTER XII: Reply to a Critic; CHAPTER XIII: Early History of Humanity: Evolution of the Black World; CONCLUSION; NOTES; NOTES ON ARCHEOLOGICAL TERMS USED IN THE TEXT; BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization
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Subject Black race -- History
Black people -- Egypt
Black race.
Black people.
Civilization.
SUBJECT Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041266
Subject Egypt.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Cook, Mercer
ISBN 9781613747360
1613747365
9781556520723
1556520727