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Vision and Time is a wake up call for Africans and people of goodwill that the academic enterprise cannot continue knowledge creation with a business as usual attitude. There has to be a major transformation of the intellectual perspectives regarding Africa and Africans in the 21st century. This revised edition of 1995's "Vision, Identity and Time" explores the relationship of a geo-culturally based Africa centered paradigm in the emerging global village of the 21st century. This text argues that perceptions of world history in a multicultural world requires the acceptance of multiple perspectives. The book distinguishes between hegemonic and non-hegemonic perspectives, discusses the significance of early Nile Valley culture and outlines frameworks of analysis using examples of African American history and South African history. This book is aimed at upper level undergraduates and graduate students as well as the teaching profession who wish to understand the rapture created by the Africa centered framework. It also offers theoretical and practical solutions that will re-unify knowledge about Africa and Africans. A section of the general public would also benefit from exposure to the ideas in the book in the context of globalization. "Vision and Time" is illustrated with diagrams and maps that explain complex developments. This is a book that enables social science practitioners to meet the challenges of a diverse global village of the 21st century.
Author Biography: C. Tsehloane Keto is Deputy Vice Chancellor: Administration at Vista University, South Africa.
Though many scholars have explored the central roles that time and location play in constructing knowledge about the past, Keto (Vista U., South Africa) advocates an Africa-centered paradigm of knowledge to provide a different perspective about the critical role of historical perceptions in the construction of social knowledge. The insights, he says, are not about Africa, but are a new way of looking at humanity and the world as a whole. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Lyle Estep
reviewed Vision and Time: Historical Perspective of an Africa-Centered Paradigm on November 01, 2014
Vision and Time: Historical Perspective of an Africa-Centered Paradigm
Veritable Encyclopedia of the Ways Americans Dealt with the Issue of How Much Black Ancestry Should Go Into the "White Race"
If you enjoyed Daniel J. Sharfstein's THE INVISIBLE LINE: A SECRET HISTORY OF RACE IN AMERICA, this book is far better. While Sharfstein focused on three families, Frank W. Sweet has written a veritable encyclopedia of the various ways Americans dealt with the issue of how much black ancestry should go into the "white race" and what exactly makes a person "white." This book covers so much: the mixed-race subcultures of Louisiana and South Carolina as well as the isolated triracial communities throughout the South; the various court cases that determined whether individuals or whole families were on the "white" or "colored" side of an inhumane caste system; the fanaticism of "African American" elites in promoting and enforcing the "one drop rule," the surprising discovery that being accepted as white usually relied less on "drops of blood" than in conducting oneself in a way that met the behavioral and attitudinal standards of the local white community.
This book should be in every college or university classroom where the instructor purports to be teaching about racial mixture in the United States, mixed-race identity, or alleged "passing for white." Mr. Sweet, unlike too many historians, does not moralize, condemn or pass judgment on white mixed-race people who assimilated into the great white melting pot. We should respect the people who rejected the "one drop" nonsense, and we should thank Mr. Sweet for giving us this valuable and irreplaceable resource.
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