reversing sail a history of the african diaspora

Written aptly as an undergraduate textbook, Reversing Sail also provides unexpected insights and intriguing entry points for the graduate research student, with a presentation broad and plain enough to provide accessibility to the non-academic seeker of historical clarity and truth. To teach a more expansive history of African descended peoples would begin to level the playing field by enabling Black children and peoples to see their intrinsic value and contribution to the civilized world and by educating white children to avoid the pitfall of undue, unearned privilege and prejudice. Beginning more than four decades ago, CRT is both an academic theory and an intellectual-turned-legal movement that seeks to unravel the thread of white supremacy and its stronghold on the construct of race as a means of maintaining social dominance through legal hierarchies and subordination. The dominance of this inaccurate account of history may be most notably recognized in the socio-political battle against Critical Race Theory (CRT). The hegemony that Gomez confronts directly is the erroneous history and persistent miseducation, particularly of those in the West, which suggests that the history of African descended peoples began with slavery and colonization. This reframing is germane to me as an emerging scholar examining the human search for transcendence by challenging the dominance of Western European concepts and approaches to contemplation and proposing the spiritualities of the African diaspora as distinctly contemplative and classic. Gomez's research, critical examination, and presentation of the worldwide African diaspora has reframed and transformed the discourse on African American cultures.

Gomez is a foremost scholar of history with unparalleled expertise in the study of Africa, the Middle East, and Islam. A timely refresh of a hegemonically radical classic, the second edition of Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora maintains its value as a foundational and reliable text on the worldwide African diaspora.

Reversing sail a history of the african diaspora