Afrocentrism
African heritage emphasis
Afrocentrism is an intellectual and cultural movement that centers African history, culture, and contributions in understanding world civilization—particularly as a corrective to Eurocentrism in Western education and scholarship.
Proponents emphasize Africa's influence on ancient Greece, Egypt's African identity, and the achievements of precolonial African societies.
Critics argue some claims lack historical evidence.
Afrocentric curricula aim to give Black students a sense of cultural heritage and pride.
Ending imperial control
- UbuntuInterconnected humanity, or its namesake OS
- reclamationRecovery of something lost
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- liberation theologyReligious movement championing the marginalized
Belief one's culture superior
- essentialismDoctrine of fixed natures
- historical revisionismReinterpreting accepted past narratives
- pseudohistoryUnfounded claims about past
- cultural biasPrejudice favoring familiar customs
exceptionalism · centrism · parochialism · cultural relativism · identity politics · historiography
decolonization
Ending imperial control
- UbuntuInterconnected humanity, or its namesake OS
- reclamationRecovery of something lost
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
liberation theology · Marcus Garvey · ancestral knowledge · motherland
ethnocentrism
Belief one's culture superior
- essentialismDoctrine of fixed natures
- historical revisionismReinterpreting accepted past narratives
- pseudohistoryUnfounded claims about past
cultural bias · exceptionalism · centrism · parochialism · cultural relativism · identity politics · historiography
- AfricaEgypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Algeria
- African studiessub-Saharan, colonial history, negritude, postcolonial, Egyptology
- Black CultureNAACP, HBCUs, Black churches, civil rights movement, Harlem Renaissance
- American IdeasAmerican Dream, American exceptionalism, transcendentalism, manifest destiny, self-reliance
- Afrocentrismcultural reclamation, ancestral wisdom, ancestral knowledge
- AfrofuturismAfrofuturism, Octavia Butler, Parliament-Funkadelic, George Clinton, Janelle Monae
Afrocentrismuniversalism
Doctrine of total reconciliation
cosmopolitanism · cultural relativism · objectivism · empiricism