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Egyptian Origins, Parallels, Afrocentrism, & General Issues of Race
 
Asante, M.F.  1996.  European racism regarding ancient Egypt. In: Egypt in Africa. Ed. Theodore Celenko.  Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art/Indiana University Press: 116-117.

Asante, M. K. 1988. Afrocentricity. Trenton, New Jersey: Africal World Press.

Asante, M. K. 1992. Kemet, Afocentricity and Knowledge. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.

Balch, David L. 2003. The Suffering of Isis/Io and Paul's Portrait of Christ Crucified (Gal. 3:1): Frescoes in Pompeian and Roman Houses and in the Temple of Isis in Pompeii. Journal of Religion 83.1 (January): 24-55.

Berlinerblau, Jacques. 1999. Heresy in the University: The Black Athena controversy and the responsibilities of American intellectuals. Rutgers University Press.

Bernal, M. 1987. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization volume I. ??:??

Bernal, M. ??. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization volume II. ??:??

Bongioanni, Alessandro. 1991. Sulla leggenda intorno all'origine "egizia" di Torino. In: L'Egitto fuori dell'Egitto. Dalla riscoperta all'Egittologia. Ed. Cristiana Morigi Govi, Silvio Curto, Sergio Pernigotti [Atti del Convegno Internazionale Bologna 26-29 marzo 1990], Bologna, Editrice CLUEB [Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice]: 33-39.

Crawford, Clinton. 1996.  Recasting Ancient Egypt in the African Context: toward a model curriculum using art and language. Trenton - Asmara: Africa World Press. Interdisciplinary Afrocentric approach to the study of ancient Egypt.

Diop, C. A. 1974. The African Origin of Civilization. Translated by M. Cook. Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill & Co.

Gillman, Susan. 1996. Pauline Hopkins and the occult: African-American revisions of nineteenth-century sciences. American Literary History 8:47-82.

Hammond, Jeffrey.  2001.  Egypt Land.  Massachusetts Review 42.4 (Winter): 629-643. Examines the experiences of an Ohio man obsessed with Egypt. Also discusses similarities between ancient Egyptian religion and Christianity.

Hilliard III, Asa G.  1996. Are Africans African? Scholarship over rhetoric and propaganda, valid discourse on Kemetic origins. In: Egypt in Africa. Ed. Theodore Celenko.  Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art/Indiana University Press: 112-115.

Howe, Stephen. 1998. Afrocentrism. London: Verso. A scholarly critique of Afrocentrism, including of Bernal 1987 and Diop 1974. Especially relevant is chapter 11, "The Lure of Egypt."

James, G.G.M. 1954. Stolen Legacy: the Greeks were not the authors of Greek philosophy, but the People of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians
. New York: Philosophical Library.

Lam, Aboubacry Moussa. 1993. De l'origine égyptienne des Peul. Gif-sur-Yvette: Khepera/ Paris: Présence africaine, 1993 = Préhistoire/ Antiquité négro-africaine.  Comparison, linguistic and otherwise, of ancient Egypt and this West African people.

Lefkowitz, Mary. 1996. Not out of Africa: how Afrocentrism became an excuse to teach myth as history. New York: HarperCollins.

Lefkowitz, M. R. & Rogers. G.M. (eds). 1996. Black Athena Revisited. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press.

Myerowitz Levine, Molly. 1992. The use and abuse of Black Athena. American Historical Review (Washington, D.C.) 97: 440-460.

Pounder, Robert L. 1992: Black Athena 2: history without rules. American Historical Review (Washington, D.C.) 97: 461-464.

Roth, A.M. 1997. Building bridges to Afrocentrism: a letter to my Egyptological colleagues. In: The Flight from Science and Reason. Ed. P.R. Gross, N. Levitt, M.W. Lewis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: 313-326.

Roth, A.M. 1998. Ancient Egypt in America: claiming the riches. In: Archaeology under Fire. Ed. L. Meskell. London: Routledge: 217-229.

Sherkova, Tatiana. 1993.  Egyptian Gods in Kushanian Kingdom? In: Atti sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia. Volume II. Torino: Comitato Organizzativo del Congresso:  479-484. Parallels between Roman-Period Egypt and modern Kushan, India.

Stricker, B.H. 1993.  Het Corpus Hermeticum. Index op gecommentarieerde passages, Amsterdam etc. Noord-Hollandsche, 1993 = Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Mededelingen van de Afdeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, 56 no. 4. 

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