Word: afrocentricism
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Broad humor and racial issues are hard to balance -- just ask Ted Danson and his ex-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg. But Lawrence is a sort of Afrocentric clown, and he has an insightful edginess that, when he chooses to display it, can raise his sitcom work above the level of stereotype...
"There is way too much street language," says Gleason Ledyard, a Christian book publisher. He says some people will be offended. Journalist P.K. McCary, who translated the first five books of the Old Testament into slang, insists that she is not "dissin' the Almighty." She has written biblical poetry and...
Matory says an evenhanded study of Afrocentric texts and approaches in the context of classes can be valuable.
Appiah agrees with that way of answering the question and says the department would have no problem tenuring someone with an Afrocentric focus if he or she were the best professor for a position.
Another question, closely linked both to a desire for Afrocentric dialogue and the call for greater social science coverage, is that of a political articulation for the department itself.