Adrienne Rich Quotes
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985. W. W. Norton & Company, 1986.
Dayan was a strong advocate for co-existence with the Arabs and an understanding of their frustrations and disappointments without bowing to the extremists who wanted to destroy Israel.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. He and his colleagues are more critical of the educators and politicians who control the history that reaches students than of the historians themselves though some of them are included in the criticism. Their major criticism is that African influence upon Minoan and other cultures that influenced Greece, Rome and Turkey are minimized or even extirpated in most curricula. Most American students see a straight line from Ancient Greece to the Western civilizations of today with no African influence or deviations.
There are a small body of historians who believe that the Ancient Egyptians were dark skinned Africans and that American and European archeologists and historians, together with their Arab counterparts and Arab workers, have either unwittingly or deliberately ignored or erased the evidence that Ancient Egyptians were Black. The majority of historians and archeologists believe that ancient Egypt was a multi-racial society with extensive intermarriage. The Nubians to the South (Sudan) were and are very dark-skinned, the Lybians in North Africa were much like the Arabs of toady, and there were Greeks and other Caucasians who were in Egypt which was one of the centers of world civilization that attracted people from all over. The Pharoh of Egypt, Ptolemy was a white Greek—one of the Generals of Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra was descended from him and more traditional Egyptians. The Black Egyptian notion seems to have emanated from a statement made by Black leader, Marcus Garvey {618973} .
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse." Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum," which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.
