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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.
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).
And there's an interesting paradox here with Africana : Gates is probably the only black intellectual in America with the charisma and clout to get it published.
Now, your comments about the politically correct nature of Africana are right and point up one of the serious flaws with this book.
Africana is a very self-conscious monument.