AFRCNA 0031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sheikh, United States Equestrian Federation, Melanin
13 Oct 2015
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Structural frame works and developments in africana studies. Dr. molefi asante ph. d. (book) afrocentricity: the theory of social change- 1980. Emphasizes location and centeredness, african agency and african frame of reference in research methodology and intellectual production. Agency: the ability to actualize oneself in the world. All six epochs reduced, suppressed, and nullified the ability of african people to actualize themselves. Dr. molefi asante was the developer of the first ph. d. program in african. To stress its intellectual value as distinct from its detractor"s ideological use. To distinguish it from eurocentrism (afrocentricity is not built on or conceived as a denial of worth and value to others) To establish it as a systematic quality of thought and practice. Afrocentric theory (set of interrelated suppositions that seek to explain a phenomenon agency) Placing african ideals at the center of any analysis that involves african culture and behavior (is a corrective to the long standing theory)
