Word: centricity
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Tiffany C. Graham '96 and Alynda D. Wheat '96 said the group is planning the Harvard Union, an organization which will provide "a forum for scholarly national debate" on Afro-centric issues and bring speakers to campus...
...Well that's interesting, because [Japanese by Spring] makes the point that any number of cultures can play the centric game, but that doesn't lead to anything. It's amazing how you see all of these so-called academics putting down multicultural courses, saying they want to stick to the Classics. Dartmouth has some of the best Classics professors in the country, but there are still all these Greek plays that have not been translated. If these guys were so interested in Greek culture, they'd want to translate some of those plays instead of writing...
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...