Black Athena writes back : Martin Bernal responds to his critics /
Martin Bernal ; edited by David Chioni Moore
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001
- xvi, 550 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-534) and index
Egyptology. Can We Be Fair? A Reply to John Baines. Greece Is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O'Connor -- Classics. Who Is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall -- Linguistics. Ausnahmslosigkeit uber Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum -- Historiography. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model -- Science. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter I. 1. 2. II. 3. 4. 5. III. 6. IV. 7. 8. 9. V. 10.
The author responds to the debate set off by the 1987 publication of his book: Black Athena. Producing a shock wave of reaction from scholars, Black Athena argued that the development of Greek civilization was heavily influenced by Afroasiatic civilizations. Moreover, Bernal asserted that this knowledge had been deliberately obscured by the rampant racism of nineteenth-century Europeans who could not abide the notion that Greek society--for centuries recognized as the originating culture of Europe--had its origins in Africa and Southwest Asia