Barbarsim At The Gate : Debora Heard

[nebsen]

Full title Barbarism At The Gate :Early Black Historigraphical Attempts To Redefine Nubia's Place In History... Really good to see the sisters stepping up like Debora Heard & others..She lays out a masterful look at the whites& Black establishments attempt to cut off Black academics concerning Africa /Egypt/Nubia...I don't believe I've ever heard a real dissuasion like this one... As we would say she brings it...!

[zarahan]

ES and later ESR laid the groundwork for a lot of this research to be popularized and disseminated
to the digital online world, superseding in part, the older media of books and paper articles circa
the 1960s/1970s/1980s and early 1990s, when a lot of the info was buried in dry, dusty inaccessible
academic venues. Even guys who weren't diggy up the buried text in some of the obscure journals were
posting relevant links and pics to keep the shared conversation and the momentum going.

With several exceptions, amazing how you see SOME academic types now who would not give the research the time of
day, and played up this horrible "Afrocentric" bogeyman, how they now come out of the woodwork, now that the info
is popularly in the hands of the common man in the digital era- so it can be no longer be denied or airbrushed
away. They emerge to cash in, metaphorically speaking, when most of the heavy distribution
lifting and compiling over the years has been done, and it doesn't, so to speak, cost them anything.

[nebsen]

Jul 25, 2022 21:19:22 GMT -5 zarahan said:

ES and later ESR laid the groundwork for a lot of this research to be popularized and disseminated
to the digital online world, superseding in part, the older media of books and paper articles circa
the 1960s/1970s/1980s and early 1990s, when a lot of the info was buried in dry, dusty inaccessible
academic venues. Even guys who weren't diggy up the buried text in some of the obscure journals were
posting relevant links and pics to keep the shared conversation and the momentum going.

With several exceptions, amazing how you see SOME academic types now who would not give the research the time of
day, and played up this horrible "Afrocentric" bogeyman, how they now come out of the woodwork, now that the info
is popularly in the hands of the common man in the digital era- so it can be no longer be denied or airbrushed
away. They emerge to cash in, metaphorically speaking, when most of the heavy distribution
lifting and compiling over the years has been done, and it doesn't, so to speak, cost them anything.

Do I detect sour grapes here..ES & ESR did wonders on the online blogs being that I know of the only ones dealing with ancient Egypt & Africa..but one has to admit along with a lots of creditable information..it was lots of other things that might have been off putting to the hard core academics... ES had it hayday..so to shall ESR different time as we know

But I see this not as a either or but a Both/And as we move more into the 21century the more I embrace the Both/And way of thinking..Ist time I heard of Both/ And was a famous Jazz club on the west coast which was named Both/And the likes of Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders etc. appeared there..fitting for a mostly Black venue in the late 60's & pointed to a way of thinking other than binary..So their does not have to be winners or losers here for All can be winners here..We need both aspects to this learning..& Glad to see Black folks, Men/ Women who have got their degrees in he filed of Egyptology , Nubology etc. That's no small feat to do..So I feel lets celebrate all who are doing the work to further the knowledge about our ancestors..& lets Lift every body UP...!!

[zarahan]

Barbarism At The Gate :Early Black Historigraphical Attempts To Redefine Nubia's Place In History
is a solid discussion, with plenty of background info. Hansberry was a giant- truly a father of
African history in the US. Great find.