Afrocentricity

Question 1

Afrocentricity

Answer 1

Experiencing cultural, traditional, and history through African lenses

Question 2

Agency

Answer 2

Power, encouragement, and act to make choices; Africans/Black Americans are agents of change

Question 3

How agency relates to afrocentricity?

Answer 3

defines the identity, culture, and history of African values

Question 4

How does afrocentricity correlate to SBWC theory?

Answer 4

focuses on the positive history and pavement of African culture
connecting it toward African culture for mental and health well being
empowerment to reclaim their cultural identity

Question 5

How does afrocentricity relate to social cognitive theory?

Answer 5

through self-efficacy, role models, cultural influence on behavior

Question 6

Off-Centerdness

Answer 6

During an extended people of invasions, intrusions, enslavement, colonialism, and settlerism, Africans have been moved off of their own terms; centers the African narrative

Question 7

Orientation/Disorientation

Answer 7

Africans see themselves as marginal/peripheral beings ; as a subject of historical reality in a substantive manner

Question 8

Location/Dislocation

Answer 8

Recognizes the importance of “place” in making people feel whole

Question 9

The search of Maat

Answer 9

Matt: Truth, justice, righteousness, harmony, balance, order, and reciprocity; finding how to incorporate these into one’s life in all aspects