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Myers, Samuel L., Jr. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
This Presidential Address was delivered by Samuel L. Myers Jr. at the Business Luncheon of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), 23rd Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 2, 2001. He contends that modern policy analysis training largely ignores race as a substantive area of inquiry. Many significant…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Black Studies, American Studies, Policy Analysis
Byrd, Marquita L. – 1995
One of the main problems with higher education is that curriculums, both past and present, objectify and marginalize the experiences of people of color and thus reduce diversity in the graduate and professional school populations. African American, Asians, Hispanics, and other minorities are studied in many college-level classes only as an…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Asian Americans, Black Culture, Black Students
Ratteray, Joan Davis – 1990
The attempt by many urban school districts to develop African curricula creates a dilemma, because it usually places an African-centered program in a multicultural curriculum that is centered in the European-American educational tradition. Currently, some elements of an African and African-centered curriculum may be found in the multicultural…
Descriptors: African Culture, Afrocentrism, Black History, Culture Conflict
Williamson-Ige, Dorothy K. – 1982
The rhetorical appropriateness of two of Shirley Chisholm's persuasive speeches on women's liberation were assessed using Afrocentric criteria for speech criticism developed by Molefi K. Asante (1979). The speeches addressed the controversy of whether the women's liberation movement was appropriate for women of minority cultures in the United…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Attitudes, Blacks, Communication Research
Tesfagiorgis, Frieda High – Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, 1987
Afrofemcentrism--Afro-female-centered consciousness in the visual arts--has found its ideological and aesthetic fruition in the sculpture of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold. They depict Black women's realities and portray Black women as primary, active, and real-typed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Art, Art Expression, Art History
Shujaa, Mwalimu J., Ed. – 1994
This book attempts to demonstrate some of the ways African-Americans can use their cultural base to educate children. The book fits into the Afrocentric school of thought with its aim to develop subject-centered analysis and solutions for children. The book makes the commitment that education is a cultural imperative for all African-American…
Descriptors: African Studies, Afrocentrism, Black Achievement, Black Education
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Miller, John J., Ed. – 1996
The essays in this collection place the current Afrocentric movement in its historical context and offer alternative suggestions about how to teach African American students about their history. The first section deals with the roots of Afrocentrism, analyzes the content of Afrocentric books and curricula, and discusses the impact of Afrocentrism…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black History, Black Students
Pollard, Diane S., Ed.; Ajirotutu, Cheryl S., Ed. – 2000
This book tells the story of two African-centered schools, an elementary school and a middle school, in an urban public school system. Both schools were originally conceived as "all male academies," but legal and political obstacles caused both to become coeducational, although still African-centered. The factors that affected the…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
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DeBerry, Kimberly M.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined family racial socialization and ecological competence during childhood and adolescence in a sample of 88 African-American transracial adoptees and their families. Longitudinal path analyses indicated that Eurocentric reference group orientation (RGO) increased over time while Africentric RGO declined for the adoptees, and maladjustment…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Afrocentrism, Blacks, Ecological Factors
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Tait, Alice A.; Perry, Robert L. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1994
Proposes that, historically and contemporarily, African Americans were and are severely underrepresented in the Eurocentric press, portrayed stereotypically, depicted in low-status occupational roles, and denied news or public affairs programs to adequately serve their informational needs. Theories on mass media's impact on society and individuals…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Stereotypes, Broadcast Journalism, Mass Media
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Kershaw, Terry – Journal of Black Studies, 1992
A model for a proposed African-American studies discipline is based on the assumptions that African-American experiences are worth studying, historical experiences of peoples of African descent can inform others about human issues, and distinctive historic and cultural African-American experiences exist. Five steps in a African-American studies…
Descriptors: African History, Afrocentrism, Black Community, Black Culture
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Cross, Theodore L., Ed.; And Others – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1993
Presents a number of brief reports on the latest trends and current circumstances surrounding African American progress in higher education. Discussions include an analysis of financial barriers, Harvard's push for diversification, academic citation systems and black scholarship, and the 1993 court ruling on Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Afrocentrism.…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Colleges, Blacks, Citation Analysis
Singer, Alan – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
To respond effectively to alleged historical misrepresentations and prejudices in Afrocentric and other ethnocentric philosophies, educators must first address our society's inadequacies. Silence suggests complicity and discredits calls for reason, academic scholarship, and the value of learning. Multiculturalism is a world view that is rooted in…
Descriptors: Activism, African Studies, Afrocentrism, Citizenship Responsibility
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Woodyard, Jeffrey Lynn – Journal of Black Studies, 1991
Analyzes the history of the development of African-American studies as a social science and humanities discipline, and contends that the field is so new it has no history of its own. The inception of the Temple University (Pennsylvania) School of Afrocentric Scholarship marks the discipline's real birth. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Afrocentrism, Black History, Black Studies
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Washington, Valora; Newman, Joanna – Journal of Negro Education, 1991
Attention to the discrepancy between female progress and male declines among Blacks in higher education detracts from the larger issue of the effects of racism on all Blacks' educational opportunities. Argues for an Afrocentric perspective on the crisis in higher education. Calls for analysis of sex-related achievement differences among Blacks.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Afrocentrism, Black Education, Black Students
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