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Shockley, Kmt G. – Journal of Negro Education, 2007
This article explicates the literature on cultural reattachment Africentric education. Cultural reattachment is a process whereby people of African descent begin to adopt (in whole or in part) aspects of an African culture (e.g., Wolof or Akan). Africentric education is defined as the adoption of Africentric ideology and cultural relevancy.…
Descriptors: African Culture, Cultural Influences, Black Studies, Afrocentrism
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Mazama, Ama – Journal of Black Studies, 1994
Language planners assert that languages are tools that can be transformed into resources and managed by states through elaboration of language policies to be carried out through language planning. Language planning is explored from the Afrocentric point of view, considering it as part of pro-Western propaganda. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Educational Policy, Ideology
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King, William M. – Phylon, 1992
Explores several facets of science and technology from an Afrocentric perspective with a world view, normative assumptions, and frames of reference growing from experiences and folk wisdom of African Americans. African-American studies can illuminate ways in which science and technology have been subordinated to ideology. (SLD)
Descriptors: African History, Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Blacks
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Crouch, Stanley – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1996
Argues that, as a movement, Afrocentrism is a clever but essentially simple-minded hustle that, in its desire to have the power to define, often justifies low-quality scholarship. Its central failure is the failure to recognize what African Americans have done to realize the truest meanings of democratic possibility. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Studies
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Banks, W. Curtis – Journal of Negro Education, 1992
Defines the theory of the Afrocentric conception, and comments on Afrocentric research methodology. The Afrocentric conception is likely to succeed if it constructs a particularist theory in contrast to cross-cultural relativism and because it relies on the methodology of the absolute rather than the comparative. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies