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  • https://stats.libretexts.org/Courses/Remixer_University/Username%3A_jhalpern/Workshop_Copy_of_African_American_History/01%3A_African_Origins_%E2%80%93_History_and_Culture/1.01%3A_Introduction
    Herskovits called the “Myths of the Negro Past. (Drake 1990:1–14).” These myths were advanced particularly and primarily about African Americans as rationales to justify slavery, and later discriminat...Herskovits called the “Myths of the Negro Past. (Drake 1990:1–14).” These myths were advanced particularly and primarily about African Americans as rationales to justify slavery, and later discrimination and segregation. (3) They advanced these myths, which portrayed Africa as a primitive and backward place, a ’Dark Continent,’ to justify slavery and create ideas of race and racial inferiority.

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