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Afrocentrism is a worldview that is centered on the history of people of African descent or a view that favors it over non-African civilizations. [1] It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their historical contributions.
Midas Chanawe outlined in his historical survey of the development of Afrocentricity how experiences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, and legal prohibition of literacy, shared by enslaved African-Americans, followed by the experience of dual cultures (e.g., Africanisms, Americanisms), resulted in some African-Americans re-exploring their African cultural heritage rather than ...
He later summarised that Diop contributed to a new "concept of African history" among African and African-American historians. [ 26 ] S.O.Y. Keita (né J.D. Walker), a biological anthropologist , contended that "his views, or some of them, have been seriously misrepresented" and he argued that there was linguistic , anthropological and ...
The following year, the book received an award from the Black Academy of Arts and Letters (BAAL), founded in New York in 1969. [5] He asserted the validity of the Black Egyptian hypothesis and that Ancient Egypt was predominantly a black civilization. Williams' central thesis is that Egypt, particularly Upper Egypt constituted the Northern ...
The first, Black Athena: Revisited, [5] is a collection of essays edited by Lefkowitz that responds directly to Bernal’s work with strong criticism. The second, Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, [6] is a text devoted to Lefkowitz’s anti-Afrocentrism argument, tying in her arguments against Bernal ...
Na'im Akbar is a clinical psychologist well known for his Afrocentric approach to psychology. He is a distinguished scholar, public speaker, and author. [1] Akbar entered the world of Black psychology in the 1960s, as the Black Power Movement was gaining momentum. [2]
Afro-pessimism is a critical framework that describes the ongoing effects of racism, colonialism, and historical processes of enslavement in the United States, including the transatlantic slave trade and their impact on structural conditions as well as the personal, subjective, and lived experience and embodied reality of African Americans; it is particularly applicable to U.S. contexts.
Africana womanism is a term coined in the late 1980s by Clenora Hudson-Weems, [1] intended as an ideology applicable to all women of African descent. It is grounded in African culture and Afrocentrism and focuses on the experiences, struggles, needs, and desires of Africana women of the African diaspora.