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Since we have been attempting to explain in our lectures and discussion sessions the complex interplay between the pragmatic activist mainstream sector of African-American intelligentsia on the one hand, and the Black solidarist or Afrocentrist sector on the other hand, my attention was immediately drawn to articles in The Crimson on the Black Students Association's (BSA) unfortunate invitation to Professor Tony Martin, whom I consider a xenophibic Afrocentrist and also to the BSA's proposed Kwanzaa Rituals celebration ("Martin Speaks at BSA Event," news story, Dec. 2, 1994; "Martin Speech Tests Hillel-BSA Relationship," news story...
...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...
Kilson, who is Black, described Martin as "a xenophobic Afrocentrist" and said he considers the BSA's decision to have Martin speak on the controversial book The Bell Curve an "unfortunate invitation...
...Afrocentrist myths have taken hold in higher education as well, extending beyond black-studies courses. In one of the required multicultural courses for freshmen at Southern Methodist University, for example, the Rev. Clarence Glover, director of intercultural education and minority affairs, tells students that melanin content generates certain emotional reactions. He suggests that those with little melanin and a Nordic background are "member- object" oriented: they rely on objects like warm clothing made of animal skins to survive. But Africans, with more melanin, he says, "have a 'member- member' orientation and value human relationships more than objects...