Word: afrocentricism
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Guinier has now made it clear that the believes that race is neither biology nor destiny. In a 1993 article re-printed in her new book, The Tyranny of the Majority, Guinier says that "racial groups are not monolithic, nor are they necessarily cohesive." Guinier wants to let individuals determine...
The science essay is a strange, error-filled melange of pseudoscience, the Egyptian religion Ma'at and other fanciful ideas, written by Hunter Adams, a former environmental technician at Argonne National Laboratories in Illinois. Yet despite the essay's bizarre claims, it has been accepted not only by Afrocentric extremists...
The dissemination of the science essay dismays Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, an anthropologist at Detroit's Wayne State University who has long lobbied for greater minority representation in science. "The danger of an Afrocentric scientific curriculum," he says, "is that if you start doing pseudoscience in schools under the guise...
Incredible as it may seem, these fallacies are being included in public school multicultural courses in a growing number of U.S. cities and espoused in black-studies departments on some college campuses. The ideas represent the views of extremists within the Afrocentric movement, which is intended to acquaint U.S. blacks...
That kind of disclaimer apparently has little impact on the school boards that embrace Afrocentric extremes. In Detroit the public schools' radio station has rebroadcast in their entirety Adams' rambling lectures. Adams has participated in seminars for the school system's science teachers, who in one session accepted without protest...