I can’t wait to hear someone claim that Cleopatra was African-American.
"He (the writer Ralph Ellison) found himself taking greater pride in his heritage when he learned the ancient Egyptians were African American"
The book was written by a college professor and published by a university press (and edited by a moron) . I remember making a note of the publisher and the qualifications of the writer. Sadly, it was a library book and long out of my possession so I can't tell you the title or the author. I *think* the title was something like "The Empty Chair : Victorian and Early 20th Century Attitudes Towards the Aftermath of the Civil War" , but googling did not confirm this at all, and I may be misremembering two books read at the same time as one book.