AFRCNA 0031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, White Supremacy
13 Oct 2015
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Black studies is the critical and systematic study of the thoughts and practice of people of african descent and their current and historical unfolding. The dispersion or scattering of people with a common origin. Important to know that their histories overlap due to some sort of suppression (ideas of freedom, social culturalization, social justice, religion, social equality) All africans and people of african descent. Move from what africans had been subjected to and undergone to what they have done which has more of an agency. Thinkers who understood themselves in both moral and social terms and constantly expressed a commitment to using their knowledge and skills in the service of the people. Values knowledge not just for knowledge sake, but rather knowledge for human sake. One of the most important concerns was the notion of relevance. A relevant education for black studies advocates was an education which was meaningful, useful and reflective of the realities of society and world.
