| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx. By Maghan Keita. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. x, 214 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511274-1.)

Maghan Keita appears to have written this book out of an acute concern with the modern culture wars in the United States and the place of historical study in them. The book presents a historical genealogy of the controversy over Afrocentric historical writing and in particular of the debate over Martin Bernal's Black Athena (1987). Taking up Bernal's point that had he been a black scholar his ideas would have received little attention, Keita argues that Bernal had African American as well as African predecessors whose work has been marginalized. . . .

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