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- Title
Undeniable Complacency of Western World Anthropology Scholars Ignorance in Acknowledging the Equality of Human Races: Revisiting AnténorFirmin in the New Millennium.
- Authors
Boaduo, Nana Adu-Pipim
- Abstract
Irrespective of the denial of the Western World anthropology scholars' acknowledgement of the world's ethnic groupings contribution to civilization Anténor Firmin predicted that "...in less than a century from now, a Black man might be called to head the Government of Washington and manage the affairs of the most progressive and powerful country on earth". This evidence should strike the first most powerful blow against the Western world anthropology scholars' theory of inequality of human races. Two of the most heinous atrocities perpetrated by the colonialists were the classification of human race, especially African people, and the derogatory concepts they used to describe them - coloureds, blacks and natives not mentioning the enslaved or Negroes. David Walker's publication "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" in September 1829 triggered Nat Turner's insurrection. American White slave owners went to fantastic lengths to suppress it and the pamphlet was, according to slave masters "inappropriate and incendiary". In his article II titled "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance" Walker pleaded "Ignorance, my brethren, is a mist, low down into the very dark and almost impenetrable abyss in which, our fathers for many centuries have been plunged...". South Africa has had its fair share of the plunging of the colonialists' sexual art works of painting of human beings which they derogatorily classified as coloureds. These are not utopian musings. We have to consider the increasing participation of Blacks in world politics to cast aside the scepticisms. This paper provides an empirical account of the epistemology of the undeniable complacency of the Western World anthropologists' ignorance in acknowledging the equality of human races. This is a revisitation of Anténor Firmin's treatise - The Equality of the Human Races.
- Subjects
RACISM in anthropology; FIRMIN, Antenor, 1850-1911; RACIAL identity of African Americans; RACE discrimination; ANTHROPOLOGISTS; EQUALITY; BLACK people
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 2, p34
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article