Word: afrocentricism
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Lefkowitz's book is an amplification of a controversial article she wrote for the New Republic in 1992, after learning that Afrocentric "myths" were being taught as fact on her own campus. Students called the author a racist for publicly challenging the assertions of an Afrocentrist guest lecturer. More shocking...
"The Afrocentric idea is a transformative idea; it takes people from the margins," Asante said.
The speaker said he believed that all Afro-American studies courses should be taught from an Afrocentric perspective, while DuBois Professor of Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department, does not.
We were not prompted by cathartic needs to do this. I can't imagine a more productive way to teach Black children the significance of unity, cooperation, creativity, faith etc., than in a way that engages them through Afrocentric means directly in the classroom. Kwanzaa is the penultimate expression of...
More and more, however, in rock -- and also in rap and R. and B. -- men and women are forming bands in which the latter not only sing but play instruments and write songs too. Some tough all-female bands have formed that give a womanist twist to the raucous sound...