Professor Walker argues against Afrocentrism and ethnocentric modes of analysis both from an intellectual and popular standpoint. He is the author of Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, winner of the Gustavus Meyers Award for Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in the United States, and You Can't Go Home Again: The Problem with Afrocentrism (forthcoming).

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