Word: centricity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the weekend, workshops were given on Afro-centric education, new Black politics, gender relations and Black spirituality...
...College this year, some observers believe that the Black Students Association (BSA) is taking an increasingly militant and Afro-centric stance...
...WANTS to be accused of driving a species to extinction. In a culture where diversity is highly valued and any adjective ending in "-centric" is an insult, someone who believes that human interests such as jobs and property rights may be more important than preserving an endangered species is likely to be branded as an "anthropocentric" enemy of biodiversity...
...island's Christmas Eve traditions, during which a group of friends go from home to home. At each stop, they are served food and then go on to the next house, taking with them their previous host. The revelry goes on till dawn. "They're very community-centric," he says...
...Harvard English department is still beset by a plague that infested the "academic" and "classical" traditions in the wake of the Industrial Revolution: Anglophilia as an easy measure of haute couture. Nineteenth-century old-world wealthy intellectuals differentiated themselves from nouveau riche with cultural Euro-centric distinctions; these distinctions were a strong reaction to an increasingly democratic America...