Word: afrocentrists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite obvious that Professor Gates, Professor Appiah ... [and others] would not put themselves in the Afrocentrist ideology," Solomon says. "The faculty may lack a professor with that bent, but I don't think that has detracted from my experience. I think it lends more legitimacy...
...Molefi Kete Asante, who chairs the Temple University Department of African American Studies, and Karenga both say the lack of Afrocentrist scholars at Harvard or other schools in the Ivy League does not reflect the national scholarship in Afro-American studies...
...recent comments made by Dr. Khallid Muhammed, an Afrocentrist scholar invited by the Afro-American Cultural Center of February 27, and Mansfield were both inflammatory and divisive--with this I have no argument. Unfortunately, I felt reactions to their comments were as narrow-minded as the comments themselves. As a frequent resident of the Undergraduate Council office, I have listened to several members (including a March 10 editorial in The Crimson) relate what must be a common sentiment: speakers who promote racial bigotry must be censured because they ignore the sensitivities of race relations...
...Afrocentrist claim can be summarized quite easily. It says the history of the cultural relations between Africa and Europe is bunk -- a prop for the fiction of white European supremacy. Paleohistorians agree that intelligent human life began in the Rift Valley of Africa. The Afrocentrist goes further: the African was the cultural father of us all. European culture derives from Egypt, and Egypt is part of Africa, linked to its heart by the artery of the Nile. Egyptian civilization begins in sub-Saharan Africa, in Ethiopia and the Sudan...
Hence, argued the founding father of Afrocentrist history, the late Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop, whatever is Egyptian is African, part of the lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements...