Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx.(Review) (book review)

History: Review of New Books, March, 2001 by WILLIAMS, VERNON J. JR.

Keita, Maghan Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx New York: Oxford University Press 214 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511274-1 Publication Date: November 1999

This useful book, which is a significant contribution to Oxford University Press's Race and American Culture series, is a sophisticated defense of Afrocentrism. Maghan Keita, an associate professor of history and director of Africana studies at Villanova University, states that his "central thesis" is: "the ways in which race has impacted the writing of the history of the classical period, the ways in which some scholars, because of their race, have had their intellectual production ignored, their ideas neglected; their intellectual lives shunted to a junction labeled `Blacks Only'" (214)....

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