Afrocentrism
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- noun
- /ˌæfroʊˈsɛntrɪzəm/
- Emergent representations and strategies for racial equality and pride that accompanied civil rights organizing, and later Afrocentrism, would modify facets of black campus pageantry.
- Afrocentrism and multiculturalism
- Afrocentrism versus Eurocentrism
Examples
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Afrocentrism promotes the study of Afrocentrism and culture in schools and universities.
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But the Afrocentrism of the '90s is likely to be less overtly political and more broadly cultural.
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In all these respects, Afrocentrism is a part of the multicultural movement.
Academic text (1992) -
Although the following sections focus on Afrocentrism, a similar critique could be made of multiculturalism in general.
Academic text (1992) -
Some multiculturalists maintain that they reject Afrocentrism just as much as they reject Eurocentrism.
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An underlying assumption of multiculturalism and Afrocentrism is a crude kind of determinism that asserts a direct relationship between geography and culture.
Academic text (1992) -
The national model for advocates of Afrocentrism is the widely circulated African-American Baseline Essays, first published in 1988 for the Portland, Oregon schools.
Academic text (1991) -
The perception of opposition between Afrocentrism and multiculturalism rests on a mistaken notion of what multiculturalists espouse.
Academic text (1992) -
Concurrent with the establishment of such national pageants as Miss Collegiate African American in 1986, Afrocentrism began to inform black pageantry.
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Many artists today express their identity through the lens of Afrocentrism.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Afrocentrism = Afrocentric (transparent) = Afro + centr + ism
Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ism' to 'Afrocentric', yielding the ideology or movement centered on Africa; this derivation is regular and clear.
Etymology
Afrocentrism comes from Afro- meaning 'African' and -centrism from center meaning 'the main point'. So, Afrocentrism is about putting Africa and African culture at the 'center' of attention, which is why it emphasizes the value of African history and identity.