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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Varieties of Black Historicism: Issues of Antimodernism and "Presentism -- Sentimental Afrocentrism -- Vindicationist and Contributionist Traditions -- Heroic Monumentalism: The Egyptocentric Mode -- A Grand Center of Negro Nationality -- African Redemptionism: The Hands of Ethiopia -- Romantic Racialism: Cult of African Moral Superiority -- African Diaspora and Culture Diffusion -- The Antimodernist Paradox: Modernism as Primitivism -- Afrocentrism and Mythic Truth -- Avoiding Presentism: Afrocentrism as a Response to Slavery and Segregation -- The Need for a Cultural Anchor -- Thematic Concerns of the Present Work -- 3 From Superman to Man: A Historiography of Decline -- 4 Progress, Providence, and Civilizationism: Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, and Others -- 5 W. E. B. Du Bois and Antimodernism -- Section 1: Arminianism, Antinomianism, and Africanity in Religion -- Section 2: Barbarism, Civilization, and Decadence -- Conclusion -- 6 Afrocentrism, Cosmopolitanism, and Cultural Literacy in the American Negro Academy -- 7 Caliban's Utopia: Modernism, Relativism, and Primitivism -- 8 Barbarism Grafted onto Decadence -- 9 Conclusion: Afrocentrism, Antimodernism, and Utopia -- Notes -- Index

Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Servility and self-respect -- Self-respect reconsidered -- Autonomy and benevolent lies -- The importance of autonomy -- Symbolic protest and calculated silence -- Moral purity and the lesser evil -- Self-regarding suicide: a modified Kantian view -- Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments -- Weakness of will and character -- Promises to oneself -- Social snobbery and human dignity -- Pains and projects: justifying to oneself -- The message of affirmative action -- Index.