Molefi Kete Asante
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 81
Publisher
Africa World Pr
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the first edition of Myths America Lives By, Hughes identified the five key myths that lie at the heart of the American experience--the myths of the Chosen Nation, of Nature's Nation, of the Christian Nation, of the Millennial Nation, and of the Innocent Nation. Drawing on a range of dissenting voices, Hughes shows that by canonizing these seemingly harmless myths of national identity as absolute truths, America risks undermining the sweepingly...