Word: afrocentrists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most substantive Afrocentrist charge against the Greeks--that they stole their best thoughts from Egypt--is not a new argument. As Lefkowitz notes, the Greek historian Herodotus thought the Egyptians believed souls could transmigrate from human to animal form; he apparently did not know that the Egyptians had no such faith, as their elaborate funerary rituals make clear...
Lefkowitz's book is an amplification of a controversial article she wrote for the New Republic in 1992, after learning that Afrocentric "myths" were being taught as fact on her own campus. Students called the author a racist for publicly challenging the assertions of an Afrocentrist guest lecturer. More shocking to her was the silence of colleagues who, though they shared her opinions of Afrocentrist teaching, refused to speak up lest they be judged politically incorrect...
...would have found the New York Civil Liberties Union defending crackpot Afrocentrist professor Leonard Jeffries of New York's City University. Thanks to such support and the fact that CUNY is a public-sector employer, Jeffries still commands a lectern, from which he is free to go on raving about the oppression of blacks by "rich Jews" and how melanin deficiency has warped the white brain...
...ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect of family obligations, runaway teenage births, nihilistic violence by macho males, etc.). The simplistic catharsis of xenophobic, Afrocentrist discourse is just plain useless in the face of these manifold crises confronting perhaps 40 percent of Black households today...
...regard to the "xenophobic Afrocentrist" (per label of Professor Kilson) the BSA sponsored on November 30, I would like to iterate the purpose and the outcome of Professor Martin's speech. We all embrace the opportunity to hear several perspectives on various issues so that we can form opinions for ourselves. In light of this, the BSA sponsored events with political scientist Andrew Hacker, social psychologist Jeffrey Howards and Professor of Africans Studies Tony Martin, who offered individual responses to The Bell Curve...