Not out of Africa.

Discusses classicist Mary Lefkowitz's refutation of the Afrocentric viewpoint in her book `Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became An Excuse to Teach Myth as History.' Lefkowitz's disagreement with the treatment of Greek history in Afrocentric work; Views on the racial make-up of ancient Greece; Egyptian influence on Greek thought; Contentions of racism and views on the teaching of history; Funding of Lefkowitz's book provided by conservatively oriented organizations.