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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.
Some academics have indicated that Afrocentricity is distinct from Afrocentrism, and that Afrocentrism is frequently confused with ethnonationalism, often simplified to black pride or romanticized black history, often misconstrued by progressive/liberal academics as being a black version of white nationalism, or mischaracterized as being a ...
Afrocentrism, popular culture and ideology focused on the history and culture of black Africans Afrocentricity , a research method and methodological paradigm used in Black studies to center black Africans as subjects and agents within their own historical and cultural contexts
"Negro History Week, and later Black History Month, provided, and still provides, a counterpoint to the narratives that either ignore the contributions of Black Americans or misrepresent the history."
The term "miseducation" was coined by Carter G. Woodson to describe the process of systematically depriving African Americans of their knowledge of self. Woodson believed that miseducation was the root of the problems of the masses of the African-American community and that if the masses of the African-American community were given the correct knowledge and education from the beginning, they ...
Tia Mowry, Naomi Osaka, Stacey Abrams, Sheryl Lee Ralph and many other Black celebrities reveal what Black history means to them.
The Abrahamic religion of Rastafari emerged in 1930s Jamaica. It centred on an Afrocentric ideology and from its origins placed importance on racial issues. According to Clarke, Rastafari is "concerned above all else with black consciousness, with rediscovering the identity, personal and racial, of black people". [1]
The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of apartheid but has angered critics.