The End of Objectification of African Man, Father of the Modern Human Species

THE END OF OBJECTIFICATION OF AFRICAN MAN

Father of the Modern Human Species

by M. Alex Westbrooks

For centuries, the language of race, science, and public policy has cast African peoples as objects to be classified rather than as the source population from which every human being on Earth descends. This book ends that framing.

Drawing on the Human Genome Project, the fossil record, and a documented history of the legal, linguistic, and institutional machinery used to enforce racial hierarchy — from de jure segregation codes to the terminology still printed on government forms today — M. Alex Westbrooks makes the case that the science and the history point to the same conclusion: African Man is not one branch of the human family. He is the root of it.

This book examines:

• How color-based racial terminology ("Black," "White," "Hispanic," "Latino") originated in slave codes and colonial classification systems — and what replacing it with heritage-accurate language would actually require

• A documented, dated record of the author's own advocacy — formal petitions and legal filings addressing monuments, educational curricula, and federal terminology

• The engineering and scientific record, from the precision of the Great Pyramid to Katherine Johnson's calculations for the Moon landing

• The recurring patterns in modern media representation, examined chapter by chapter

• The complete legal framework — Title VI, the Fourteenth Amendment, UNESCO conventions, and case law — underlying every reform proposed in this book

Written as both an argument and a record: part legal brief, part historical corrective, part call to finish work that started over a century ago and was never completed.