Word: kwanzaa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...
...Liebert does not note that racism, an ideology that views minority groups as culturally and/or biologically inferior, is also a social construction. At their core, Black History Month and Kwanzaa are simply cultural constructions drafted to fight against racism, the most irrational construct of all. They cannot be considered outside of that context...
This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...
Liebert does not note that racism, an ideology that views minority groups as culturally and/or biologically inferior, is also a social construction. At their core, Black History Month and Kwanzaa are simply cultural constructions drafted to fight against racism, the most irrational construct of all. They cannot be considered outside of that context. JASON B. PHILLIPS '99 March 1, 1999 The writer is vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association...
...black, supports a source of black identity and pride significantly more relevant and accessible to modern black Americans than any notion of common African cultural heritage. Also, both blacks and whites celebrate Black History Month. As McDonald's and Better Foods evince, Black History Month lacks all of Kwanzaa's exclusivity and divisiveness. Black History Month provides a unifying, healing celebration of black identity...