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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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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
Bowser, Benjamin P., Ed.; And Others – 1995
This book is about the growing need for a more inclusive curriculum and university. The debate about multicultural education is moved from an ideological debate to the realm of the practical in these selections. The first part of the book outlines the demographic and historic realities that make multiculturalism imperative. The second part gives…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Blacks, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Awareness