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Afrocentrism is a scholarly movement that seeks to conduct research and education on global history subjects, from the perspective of historical African peoples and polities. It takes a critical stance on Eurocentric assumptions and myths about world history, in order to pursue methodological studies of the latter.
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
Black History Month uses four colors—black, red, green and yellow—to symbolize unity and pride.Each of the four colors has its own distinct meaning and significance. The colors of Black ...
Parry, alongside Anne Bailey, Professor of History at Binghamton University and the State University of New York, shared with us the meaning behind the origins of Black History Month, as well as ...
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 ...
Among some individuals in the Conscious Community, there is a common belief that phenomena of the world do not operate in the way humans believe them to; consequently, Afrofuturism is used to philosophize about the deeper meaning of reality and life, to decrypt physical and metaphysical events, and, along with ideas from physics (e.g., quantum ...
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.