Nov 16, 2009
Afrocentricity deals with the consciousness of a people who have been separated from the core of their heritage through slavery, historical untruths, and political, educational, and economic oppression. Afrocentric studies seek to recapture, through historical and cultural awareness, a full understanding of how African Americans should view the world. In Afrocentricity, Molefi K. Asante suggests that African Americans should disencumber themselves from the Eurocentric point of view and adopt instead a way of thinking that gives primacy to the cultural...
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