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Race And The Civilizing Mission: Their Implications For The Framing Of Blackness And African Personhood,Used
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Europeans had militarily subjugated and occupied Africa in part because they were on a civilizing mission to rescue Africans from savagery and barbarism. This book explores one central question, among many others, while interrogating and problematizing this notion: How does understanding race help us to better appreciate the subtle ideological motivations and underpinnings of the European civilizing mission ? The latter notion, it is painstakingly argued, was engendered by the former as an instrument for propagating and glamorizing whiteness at the expense of blackness. Given this cultural tension between whiteness and blackness it became necessary and imperative, during the phase of decolonization, to challenge the philosophical basis of the imperial knowledge system that had initiated and defended the rule of race and the civilizing mission in Africa. That intellectual process of challenging the imperial knowledge system, for many African anticolonial activists, publicists, and scholars, was also an exercise in identity reconstruction; and the inspiration for this exercise was in part derived from the raceoriented values of PanAfricanism, Negritude, and Black Consciousness. Not surprisingly, that engagement in due time became known as the historiography of selfassertion. By discussing and analyzing these ideologically driven and valueloaded forms of historical writing over time, this book has contributed to the recontextualizing of the debate on knowledge production about Africa and blackness; the general revaluation of evidence in the evolving construction of racebased group identities between 1800 and 1960; and the overall interconnectedness between the production of knowledge, its delivery and consumption, and the global politics of identity construction.
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