The Black Athena Debate: An Annotated Bibliography.

This bibliography introduces sources composing the Black Athena debate, which is now hi its seventeenth year. Issues in the debate include not only the origins of Western civilization and its history, but legitimacy of scholarship, historical methodology, racism, and ethnocentrism. Libraries will want to include the major sources not only for their intrinsic scholarship, but also as an illustrative example of a colorful, multifaceted, scholarly argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]