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When it comes to scientific questions (especially but not exclusively historical research), what questions/issues do you feel rouse great interest to the black community besides the African heritage/Race debates of AE? Answers don't have to be limited to African studies.
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You ask what scientific issues pertain to a community defined by race that aren't racial
It's like asking what are the interests of carpenters besides carpentry. If they had such interests a lot of people might have such interests so the fact that a person might also be a carpenter would be irrelevant
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Carpenters share a culture? They've been spatially isolated in an effort to render them endogamous and to be easier targets of discrimination?
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Actually,in United States, blacks descendants of African slaves contributed enormously in all science fields, including on development of first computers, which made possible for us to be chatting here today.
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The question isn't about contribution, but what interests can we find in the black community (in general) about scientific questions (especially but not exclusively historical research? And like I said, outside of Egypt of course.
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Oshun, the question is misplaced because you are on a forum about Egypt asking questions about other interests outside of it. Unfortunately, in today's age of internet forums and social media, interest groups are going to vary widely and have targeted topics. In the old days, this was primarily the domain of scholars and in America, there was indeed a great focus on Egypt but there were also other scholars within Africana studies that focused on other things. And that is still the case. It basically depends on what YOU are looking for and by seeking that you will come across these other groups, scholars and forums. The 90s as an era of "afrocentric" culture in popular media and in minds the American black masses is long gone.
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