AFRCNA 0031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Africana Studies, Eurocentrism, Sheikh
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Structural frameworks and developments in africana studies (9/6/18) Afrocentricity: dr. molen asante phd, book (afrocentricity: the theory of social change- 1980) Afrocentric theory: emphasizes location and centeredness, african agency and african frame of reference in research methodology and intellectual production. First: dr. molefi asante was the developer of the first phd program in african american. Ideology: a set of beliefs, values and assumptions, held on faith alone and generally unrelated to empirical facts, that act as guidelines to or prescriptions for individual or group behavior. 37: the painful demise of eurocentrism by molefi kete asante, to establish it as a systematic quality of thought and practice, vertical plane & horizontal plane, e|af (afrocentity) e| as (historical plane) e|i. Africans as active subjects of history rather than objects or passive victims. The afrocentric idea by modefi kete asante: the afrocentric manifesto by modefi kete asante (2007version & 2013 version) Inquiry and ongoing criticism of relations into the black freedom movement.
