Goldenberg relies upon the troubling
concept of “black African.” He uses this,
for example, in order to distinguish
between Egyptians and Ethiopians (he
does not consider Egyptians to be “black
Africans”).
This concept of the “black African” was
developed by racist intellectuals of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in
order to avoid attributing examples of
cultural prowess or achievement to
“blacks.”
The concept is in every sense a product
of white supremacist strategies to
dehumanize Africans by inscribing them
as having no history or culture.
During the slave trade, they rounded
Israelite up and traded them to the
Edomites and Ishmaelite.