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Title: Stolen Legacy by George G. M. James ISBN: 0-913543-78-0 Publisher: African American Images Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.89 (54 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: More important for the questions it raises than answers
Comment: Any book that can render this kind of reaction by intellectuals and regular folk alike should be on everyone's reading list. Even in today's polemical culture of complaint, where people hide bad art and cheap sensational ideas behind political/ideological fads or automatic public reactions to their support or refutation, one must look at the thought provoking questions that this book arises- and the near automatic emotions that go with them. I read this book several years ago in college. Though I didn't particularly like the preachy style, it successfully started me on an intellectual journey through a plethora of authors of the past two centuries and a spiritual awakening. This book, I am reminded, has such power, because it raises more uncomfortable questions than it answers. In the spirit of such work, the raison detre of all scholarship, I'd like to ask all others past, present and future who have or plan to review this book: have you read [email protected]'s review of this yet? Were you aware of the facts he brings to light and refers to- more importantly, the intellectual paradigms he used to formulate his opinions, as those are (linguistics specifically)part and parcel of the methods, principles and practices of all Western scholars? Why do you think all architecture schools across all of Western civilization through the centuries to today begin their students' studies with the Pyramids? Have you seen the pyramids of the Sudan and Nubia, some predating those of Giza, recently unearthed by German archaeological teams? And what do you think our Founding Fathers (Washington, Jefferson, et al) would have thought of such a work (and think of the back of the dollar bill before you answer)?
Rating: 4
Summary: An important book, regardless of its faults
Comment: Any book that can render this kind of reaction by intellectuals and regular folk alike should be on everyone's reading list. In today's culture of complaint, people hide bad art and cheap sensational ideas behind political/ideological fads and the automatic public reactions to their support or refutation all the time. Yet even with a healthy skepticism firmly in place, one must look at the thought provoking questions that this book demands are asked--and the near automatic visceral emotions that seem to go with them.
I read this book several years ago in college. Though I didn't particularly like the preachy style, or much of the rhetoric seemingly impossible to prove scientifically, it successfully started me on an intellectual journey through a plethora of Egyptological authors of the past two centuries and a spiritual awakening. This book, I am reminded, has such power, because it raises more uncomfortable questions than it answers.
Before or even after an opinion of this work has become set in stone in one's mind (usually inspired by an emotional knee-jerk reaction, as if the book is little more than a political metaphor and not an attempt to rediscover the actual ancient world) one must ask themselves, as I was again forced to upon re-reading it:
Have you actually READ the book?
Have you read [email protected]'s review of this yet (June 29, 1998)? Were you aware of the facts he brings to light and refers to- more importantly, the intellectual paradigms he used to formulate his opinions, as those are (linguistics specifically)part and parcel of the methods, principles and practices of all Western scholars?
Why do you think all architecture schools across all of Western civilization throughout the centuries to today begin their students' studies with the Pyramids?
Have you seen the pyramids of the Sudan and Nubia, some predating those of Giza, recently unearthed by German archaeological teams?
And what do you think our Founding Fathers (Washington, Jefferson, et al) would have thought of such a work (and think of the back of the dollar bill before you answer)?
This book, even with the sermon-like fault of its structure (which says as much about when it was written--and what it took for someone with these kinds of ideas to be published at the time--as the author) remains powerful and influential because of the degree to which it wrestles and answers these kinds of questions. STOLEN LAGACY has its faults, but its ability to make you think, whether you want to or not, isn't one of them.
Definitiely worth reading; also worth owning...and continually argued about.
Rating: 1
Summary: balck spark, white fire
Comment: i didn't like this book one bit. the auther should try reading a book called black spark white fire written by richard poe. richard poe is an outstanding author and wrote a masterpiece. Your book was just too weak and not strong enough to tell us your point of writing this book, Mr. george g.m. james!
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Title: A Chronology of the Bible: Challenge to the Standard Version by Yosef Ben-Jochannan ISBN: 0933121288 Publisher: Black Classic Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.00 |
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Title: Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams ISBN: 0883780305 Publisher: Third World Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop, Mercer Cook ISBN: 1556520727 Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Isis Papers by Frances Cress Welsing ISBN: 0883781042 Publisher: Third World Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima ISBN: 0394402456 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 12 November, 1976 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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