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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.
So, a book like Africana is bound to get a great deal of use, to be sold to virtually every school, public, and university library in the country, as well as to a number of churches, to say nothing of the private homes that will have a copy right next to the Britannica . (In some more Afrocentric black homes, it may replace the Britannica entirely, that Eurocentric collection of lies, although Britannica has become as multicultural as everyone else these days.)
At the same time, though, admitting that I need to keep Africana because it's all we have right now is too much like how some older folk I know feel about Ebony and BET (which, one wag I know quips, stands for the Brothers' Excuse for Television).
With all the goodwill in the world, a book like Africana cannot help but produce thought-clichés; it is, indeed, why most people will consult such a work, to find them and be comforted by them.
What is curious about Africana is that they both--Gates and Appiah--are doing a book that I think, in its current manifestation, is beneath them.