Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is an approach to the study of world history that focuses on the history of people of recent [ clarification needed ] African descent. It is in some respects a response to global ( Eurocentric ) attitudes about African people and their historical contributions; it seeks to correct mistakes and ideas perpetuated by the racist philosophical underpinnings of western academic disciplines as they developed during and since Europe's Early Renaissance as justifying rationales for the enslavement of other peoples, in order to enable more accurate accounts of not only African but all people's contributions to world history. [1] Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a Pan-African point of view for the study of culture, philosophy , and history. [2] [3]
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is an approach to the study of world history that focuses on the history of people of recent [ clarification needed ] African descent. It is in some respects a response to global ( Eurocentric ) attitudes about African people and their historical contributions; it seeks to correct mistakes and ideas perpetuated by the racist philosophical underpinnings of western academic disciplines as they developed during and since Europe's Early Renaissance as justifying rationales for the enslavement of other peoples, in order to enable more accurate accounts of not only African but all people's contributions to world history. [1] Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a Pan-African point of view for the study of culture, philosophy , and history. [2] [3] |
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| 2017 |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is a cultural ideology or worldview that focuses on the history of black Africans . It is a response to global ( Eurocentric ) attitudes about African people and their historical contributions; it revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a Pan-African ideology in culture, philosophy , and history. [1] [2] |
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| 2016 |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is a cultural ideology or worldview mostly limited to the United States that focuses on the history of black Africans . It is a response to global ( Eurocentric / Orientalist ) attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a Pan-African ideology in culture, philosophy, and history. [1] [2] |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is a cultural ideology , worldview mostly limited to the United States and is dedicated to the history of Black people . It is a response to global ( Eurocentric / Orientalist ) attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a Pan-African ideology in culture, philosophy, and history. [1] [2] |
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| 2014 |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is a cultural ideology , worldview mostly limited to the United States and is dedicated to the history of Black people . It is a response to global ( Eurocentric / Orientalist ) racist attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is [1] a Pan-African ideology in culture, philosophy, and history. [2] |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is a cultural ideology , worldview mostly limited to the United States and is dedicated to the history of Black people . It is a response to global ( Eurocentric / Orientalist ) racist attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is [1] a Pan-African ideology in culture, philosophy, and history. [2] |
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| 2012 |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is a cultural ideology , worldview mostly limited to the United States and is dedicated to the history of Black people . It is a response to global ( Eurocentric / Orientalist ) racist attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is [1] a Pan-African ideology in culture, philosophy, and history. [2] |
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| 2011 |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ) is a cultural ideology mostly limited to the United States and is dedicated to the history of Black people . It is a response to perceived global ( Eurocentric / Orientalist ) racist attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus. Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is [1] a Pan-African ideology in culture, philosophy, and history. [2] It can be traced back to the work of black intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but flowered into its modern form due to the activism of black intellectuals in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and in the development of African American Studies programs in universities. |
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| 2010 |
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Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity ; occasionally Africentrism [1] ) is an ethnocentric ideology which emphasizes the importance of African people , taken as a single group and often equated with black people , in culture, philosophy, and history. [2] Radical Afrocentrism is a project of historical revisionism , including various pseudohistorical claims such as suggestions that ancient Greece and ancient Egypt were originally black civilizations, and that Africans were responsible for many of the great innovations in ancient philosophy, science, and technology, which were later stolen by Middle Eastern European peoples. Critics contend that such "Afrocentric historical research" is grounded in identity politics and myth rather than scholarship. Lefkowitz has criticized Afrocentrism as "an excuse to teach myth as history”. |
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| 2009 |
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4. Views on race and the Pan-African identity 5. Pre-Columbian Africa-Americas contact theories |
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Afrocentrism , Afrocentricity , or Africentrism [1] is a world view which emphasizes the importance of African people , taken as a single group and often equated with " Black people ", in culture, philosophy, and history. [2] The roots of Afrocentrism lay in a reaction to the repression of Black people throughout the Western world in the 19th century and as a backlash against the scientific racism of the period, which tended to attribute any advanced civilization to the immigration of Proto-Indo-Europeans and their descendants. [3] Part of this reaction involved reviewing history to document the contributions that Black people made to world civilization. [4] |
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Afrocentrism or Afrocentricity is a world view that emphasizes the importance of African people in culture, philosophy, and history. [1] Fundamental to Afrocentrism is the assumption that approaching knowledge from a Eurocentrist perspective, as well as certain mainstream assumptions in the application of information in the West , has led to injustices and also to inadequacies in meeting the needs of Black Africans and the peoples of the African diaspora . [ citation needed ] |
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Afrocentricity , or Afrocentrism , is an intellectual perspective that considers African people and phenomena to be subjects central to the interpretation of data. [1] Afrocentrists commonly contend that Eurocentrism led to the neglect or denial of the contributions of African people and focused instead on a generally European -centered model of world civilization and history. Therefore, Afrocentrism is a paradigm shift from a European-centered history to an African-centered history. More broadly, Afrocentrism is concerned with distinguishing African achievements apart from the influence of European peoples. [2] Some Western mainstream scholars have assessed some Afrocentric ideas as pseudohistorical , especially claims regarding Ancient Egypt as contributing directly to the development of Greek and Western culture. [3] Contemporary Afrocentrists may view the movement as multicultural rather than ethnocentric . [4] According to US professor Victor Oguejiofor Okafor , concepts of Afrocentricity lie at the core of the disciplines such as African American studies . [5] |
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| 2006 |
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1. Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity 3. The debate over Afrocentrism 5. African-centered history and Africa |
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Afrocentrism is an academic , historical approach to the study of world history. Afrocentrism holds that Eurocentrism has led to the neglect or denial of the contributions of Africa's original peoples and focused instead on a generally European -centered model of world civilization and history . Therefore, Afrocentrism aims to shift the focus from a European-centered history to an Africa -centered history. More broadly, Afrocentrism is concerned with distinguishing the influence of European and Oriental peoples from indigenous African achievements. |
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1. Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity 3. The debate over Afrocentrism 5. Black-centered history and Africa |
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Afrocentrism is an outlook or worldview centered on Africa and the descendants of African peoples, much the way Eurocentrism is centered on Europe and Europeans. It often includes a revisionist history that recasts world history from an African point of view. In its more radical form, often connected with black supremacy , it includes the notion that African contributions to world history, culture, and race are superior to the contributions of peoples from other continents . |
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Afrocentrism is a term used to refer to the belief that ancient Africa was the source of cultural and intellectual achievements that have been systematically denied or suppressed by Europeans . It is, in this respect, an inversion of the perceived racial hierarchies of Eurocentric history. Typically Afrocentrism concentrates on the achievements of the ancient Egyptians , presenting them as a black race. Afrocentrists typically refer to Egypt as Kemet , the indigenous term for the country. This does indeed mean 'black land', though this is traditionally understood to refer to the dark fertile soil beside the Nile , in contrast to the yellow sand beyond. Afrocentrists interpret it to refer to the skin color of the inhabitants. |