Word: afrocentrists
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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...
...know of one single person who would identify as an Afrocentrist" [in the Harvard Afro-American Studies department]," Harper says...
Appiah too, while offering Afrocentrist perspectives in his Afro-American Studies tutorial, says Afrocentrism in the "New York Times, sensationalistic sense, is a body of work for which I don't have a great deal of respect...
...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...