Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness: Essays on Adaptations of Familiar Stories by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw & Ruth McKoy Lowery & Laretta Henderson

Author:Vivian Yenika-Agbaw & Ruth McKoy Lowery & Laretta Henderson [Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2013-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

In many respects, Courlander’s scholarship on African cultures was ahead of its time in that he recognized the European tendency to divide the world into “civilized” and “primitive” peoples, which was based first on pride in its own particular achievements and, second, on the racialization of group differences that were minimal in the total scheme of things. Serving as spokesperson on behalf of the West, Courlander acknowledges the following:

We understand now what we were not ready to comprehend a century or so ago—that the diverse social structures and processes of Africa, as elsewhere, are products of the civilizing movements of mankind, other faces of the human response to the challenges of living. When we say “Africans” it is merely a convenient manner of saying “mankind in Africa”—peoples, villages and tribes that through millennia of contest with one another, with the land and with ideas have provided particular answers to questions of organization, survival, and the meaning of life [1].

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