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Article: Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History.
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- March 25, 1996
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IN his case study of the horrors of civil strife within the Greek city-state of Corcyra, Thucydides clinically describes how opposing factions, in their pursuit of power and hatred of one another, dehistoricized the meanings of words and ideas and invented new ones. The Greek historian would consider it a small and predictable historical irony that recent factional warfare in the Balkan peninsula, where Corcyra itself is located, has made "Balkanized" the fashionable replacement for "Corcyraean" or "Orwellian" in discussions of such phenomena. But with what measure of irony would Thucydides observe the process of dehistoricization and intellectual "Balkanization" within ...
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