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Now, your comments about the politically correct nature of Africana are right and point up one of the serious flaws with this book.
(That's another one of those glaring omissions that make you wonder whether the editors of Africana didn't really have an agenda after all.)
What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.
What I'm really puzzled about this morning is the omission of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson from Africana . McPherson was one of my teachers at the University of Iowa; in fact, I went to the writing program there to study with him.
(That last isn't all that unreasonable, given the unremittingly cheerful Ebony magazine-like achievement accounting of Africana .)