Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of the Association have emphasized that he membership clause stipulates a "peculiar relation" to a geographical region, Africa. They define Africans as those peoples who did not come to Africa through invasions, including some Semitic peoples, but mostly members of the Negro race. The leaders of the Association say that a European whose ancestors invaded is still not African because his life in Africa is a result of their violence; they thus exclude Afrikaaners, who consider themselves Europeans...
Spokesmen of the Association have defined Afro-American to include Afro-Cubans, Afro-Mexicans, and Afro-Indians; they thus claim that no racial discrimination exists since Afro-Americans are often racially mixed. In actuality, this definition means that practically no American of any country can claim African heritage without at the same time claiming to be at least part Negro. An American without Negro ancestry can join the club, according to its spokesmen, only by taking up citizenship in a "free" African state; this, like all the definitions above, is clearly a criterion for membership which discriminates on the basis...
...view. Negroes in America are in a unique position. They must draw upon history and their perception of the present to determine whether they can in fact become an equal part of the American plurality, or whether they must turn their allegiance towards Africa. Americans, with or without African background, have not found it easy to articulate or accept this conception of the question, but it is a question which must be examined by Negro intellectuals, and on their own terms. By publishing a magazine and issuing policy statements, the proposed Association could help provide leadership in a debate that...
...certainly very exciting to discuss the HCUA's rejection of the constitution of the African and Afro-American Association in the context of the American Negro Problem. But with all due apologies to local moralizers, rhetoricians and sociologists, such discussion is hardly to the point...
...mature consideration of these elementary requirements would certainly have convinced the founders of the African and Afro-American Association that a membership clause which excludes whites on the basis of race would have to be rejected by the HCUA and the Deans. Yet they sent Mr. Armah before the HCUA to proclaim that the phrase "Africans and Afro-Americans" means no whites allowed. If the membership clause is as discriminatory as Mr. Armah insists Harvard as a Massachusetts college, ought not to approve it. And the founders of the African and Afro-American Association should have known better to expect...