Question 2, how are the authors opinions differant?

Asanti is differant from the other three authors in a 3 distinct ways.
FIRST... Asanti has a strong opinion on Afrocentricity which is the act of helping Africans and people of African descent become relocated and paid attention too. Asanti believes that African Americans are to Eurocentric and they need to focus more on their origin, and not the historical past. Asanti also believes that blacks reject themselves and they try to connect with that Euro past and through this try and regain their sense of belonging from the whites.
SECOND... Asanti wants blacks to be studied not as objects but as a subject, just like American history of whites and indians, this makes sense, and he just wants the proper attention and admiration that everyone elses history recieves.
THIRD...Asanti has a strong opinion on people fearing Afrocentricity, and that may be because people are not used to it or are unfamiliar with the ideas.
Asanti is much differant from Hall, hooks, and West with his ideas and has a strong view point on Afrocentricity. Honestly it was a difficult read, but I think I take away some main points of how he views history, and helps me rethink how I see the past as well. Where the authors differ is that Asanti has a much darker look, and the others are more positive and try to come up with helpful solutions to racism.

hooks...
hooks thinks that we could address post modernism with a critical thought since there is little mention of blacks and is heavily dominated by white males. Women helped offer a new insight , and hooks mentions looking at blacks as in classes, just like whites, and help create a strategy to help the underclass. She has a good idea about comparing races, since I think you have to make things equal to compare them, and by braking them into classes, you are better able to understand the struggles and past they have experienced.

Hall...
Hall believed that ethnicity is framed historically, culturally and politically, this means that the black identity reflects reflects a variety of histories. He believes that representation is political and it matters alot, and that people speak individually as a member, rather than for the entire group. Hall also talks about how blacks are not necessarily innocent, or that everything they say or do is not necessarily correct. This is differant than Asanti, who rather believes that most everything blacks do is correct. Finally Hall things that representation creates a image that all cultures can percieve.

West...
West on the New Political Differance, and to do this he thinks we all need freedom and the same rights, regardless of age gender or sex. To do this he needs the cooperation of all communities adn groups to make this happen, but he has so far been unsuccessful.

The four authors have differant viewpoints on african american history, but each bring a unique point of view, with differant interests to help me think about everything.