Afrocentricity Flashcards

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What are the dimensions of africentricity?

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  1. awareness/recognition of collective African heritage
  2. Scholarships and reasearch
  3. General ideology & activity placed on African survival liberation
  4. Specific activity like self knowledge and African cantered values
  5. Framework of resistance towards anti African forces and threats to diaspora survival
  6. University and African diaspora recognition that even though Africans have beeenscattered throughout the world, the culture and identity are still present
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What is afticentricity

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A perspective that allows Africans to be the subjects of history instead of objects on the fringes of Europe’s

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What is the main recognition?

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That Africa is the origin of human kind

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What is a major characteristic of afticentricity?

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Communalism

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What is the world view rooted in?

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Historical, cultural, philosophical traditions

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What about africentricity and racial socialization?

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African American parents have to warn their children about the dangers of looking like they look and being African American in society
The idea that black American youth have to have a double consciousness

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What is conceptualized as?

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As having different dimensions and according to Asante it is an orientation of data and facts that includes location, place orientation and perspective

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