Afrocentrist

Examples

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• This is one respect in which multiculturalists differ from Afrocentrists, though it is clearly a difference in emphasis only.

  Academic text (1992)

• In their assault on the textbooks, the Afrocentrists sometimes appear to be saying that the lives of black schoolchildren can be transformed if only they have different books in their hands.

  Academic text (1991)

• But it is clear from the statements by Afrocentrists that they want more than this.

  Academic text (1992)

• Yet this is precisely the kind of thinking Afrocentrists and other multiculturalists encourage.

  Academic text (1992)

• However, Afrocentrists correctly respond that they belong within the multicultural movement.

  Academic text (1992)

• The Afrocentrists are using the same imaginative methodology when they claim that Greek culture was stolen from Egypt.

  Academic text (1995)

• Bernal and the Afrocentrists suggest that modern scholars, because of their anti-African prejudices, have not fully acknowledged the importance of this Egyptian "connection."

  Academic text (1995)

• Multiculturalist James A. Banks argues that proponents of the Afrocentrist curriculum "are merely asking that the cultures of Africa and African-American people be legitimized in the curriculum and that African contributions to European civilization be acknowledged."

  Academic text (1992)

• An Afrocentrist believes that African culture should be celebrated and recognized globally.

• Many Afrocentrists promote the study of African history in schools to enhance cultural awareness.

Synonyms

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Afrocentric

vsAfrocentrist

8.1

A person who supports African culture, history, and ideas

is the same in meaning but appears as a noun form rather than adjective form

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Etymology