In this dissertation, I revise our understanding of race and ethnicity, black nationalism, and Afrocentricity through an examination of the history of twentieth-century black nationalism. The overarching goal of the project is to reconceptualize race and ethnicity. Sociologists …
This study provides a foundational framework for Afrocentric translation. Afrocentric translation in which Afrikan languages and their Pan-Afrikan cultural context, transgenerationally and transcontinentally, are central in the interpretation of Afrikan texts (written or oral) a…
Michael Tillotson’s Agency Reduction Formation theory is designed to expose, situate, and explain ideological trends that are intended to compel African people to distance themselves from their collective identity (Tillotson 2011, 62). Identity provides African people the intern…
The purpose of my project is to impact the knowledge, attitudes, and actions of leaders regarding Afrocentrism at Total Grace Church, Lexington Kentucky through the participation of an eight-part workshop on Afrocentricity. The design of the project included the administration o…