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"This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of …
This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of c…
"The impetus for this book emerged from our belief that as Africans across the globe are confronted with a myriad of challenges that have been birthed by globalization (i.e. the process of going to a more interconnected world by diminishing the world's social dimension and expan…
African isms: Africa and the globalized world
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In this volume, editor Janice D. Hamlet has chosen essays which illuminate various aspects of African American culture, refracted through the lens of Afrocentric thought. The book examines: Afrocentric ideology and methodology; Afrocentric approaches to the dynamics of communica…
Afrocentricity - the placement of African values and ideals at the center of the discussion surrounding African culture, discourse, and behavior - is an important framework that has emerged over the past decade. In this timely volume, editor Janice D. Hamlet has chosen essays th…
"What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable - one of the leading scholars of African American history - gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who in…
"In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of a social critic, the book p…
Argues that the Afrocentric movement is substituting myth for historical research and undermining the true accomplishments of Africa, and explains why history must be based on research and fact, and not on politics.
Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic civilization to the Africans? Hardly a week goes by when an article does not appear in a newspaper or magazine by an Afrocentrist writer making suc…
Africanity redefined
by Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin, Laremont, Ricardo René
fromClassic authors and texts on Africa
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The (multi)cultural paradigm. 2. Redefining Africa. 3. The triple heritage. Modernity and development. All the essays are listed in the full-text area of this record.