From Cheikh Anta Diop and the New Light on African History
1. Who is Cheikh Anta Diop and what does his Melanin Dosage Test measure? What does it prove?
EFLA Article: Egyptology and the Foundations of Scientific Racism
2. What is scientific racism? Name at least two people who promoted scientific racism.
3. What are the primary reasons 17th-20th Century European and America scholars began denying that the ancient Egyptians were Black Africans?
4. What is craniology and how was it used by early Egyptologists?
From Ancient Greek Testimony Regarding the Ancient Egyptians
5. In general, how did the ancient Greeks describe the physical features of the ancient Egyptians?
From 10 Arguments That Prove Ancient Egyptians Were Black
6. What are four of the ten ways to prove that the ancient Egyptians were African and “Black” by modern definitions of race? Go over each in class.
From Slideshow: How the Ancient Egyptians Depicted Themselves
7. What skin tones did the ancient Egyptians paint themselves?
8. Based on the images in the slideshow, what “race” would you say they would be categorized as today?
From Slideshow: Greco-Roman Egypt: 323 B.C.E. - 476 A.C.E.
9. How did the images from the Greco-Roman Egypt slideshow differ from those from the How the Ancient Egyptians Depicted Themselves slideshow?
From Slideshow: Hollywood Depictions of Ancient Egyptians
10. How do Hollywood depictions of Ancient Egypt compare to how the Ancient Egyptians portrayed themselves?
11. Do these images confirm or dispel your previous conceptions of Ancient Egyptians?
Studio Apologizes for all white cast for Gods of Egypt
12. Do you believe that if Hollywood studios made movies depicting the ancient Egyptians as they depicted themselves in the slideshow, the movies would flop? Why or why not?