Abstract
The Afrocentric intellectual tradition, both learned and popular, responsible for the historiographies of grandeur, decline, and redemption that have surfaced in the African American consciousness has been dedicated to the human task of promoting "a sense of collective worth despite a history of persistent oppression." African American historical consciousness is not only concerned with "African centered constructions of the past," it is also equally concerned with fashioning a vision of a better future (Moses 17). In Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History, Wilson Jeremiah Moses argues that it is crucial to distinguish various strands of Afrocentrism from the Egyptomorphic variety that dominates the tradition, not for the more obvious reasons (occasional controversies), but in order to describe the "truly complex origins [of Afrocentric thought] in enlightenment Christianity, eighteenth-century progressivism, and black resistance to white supremacy" (15-16):
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