Afrocentrism is a worldview or ideology that focuses on the black people and their contributions. More particularly, it often seeks to emphasize the contributions of black African peoples and the African diaspora over other peoples. Like any ideology or worldview, its proponents differ on many specific points but universally hold certain broad concepts to be true. Mainstream Afrocentric theory is critical of Eurocentrism. Afrocentrism holds that Eurocentrism has led to the neglect or denial of the contributions of Africa ...

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• Afrocentrism - Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity
• Afrocentrism - History of Afrocentrism
• Afrocentrism - The debate over Afrocentrism
• Afrocentrism - Egypt and black identity
• Afrocentrism - Black-centered history and Africa
• Afrocentrism - A different world-view
• Afrocentrism - List of notable Afrocentric historians
• Afrocentrism - Related topics

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Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity, Afrocentrism - History of Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - The debate over Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and black identity, Afrocentrism - Black-centered history and Africa, Afrocentrism - A different world-view, Afrocentrism - List of notable Afrocentric historians, Afrocentrism - Related topics

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The beginnings of modern Afrocentric scholarship can be found in the work of African-American and Caribbean intellectuals early in the twentieth century. Publications such as The Crisis and the Journal of Negro History sought to counter the prevailing view in the West that Africa had contributed nothing of value to human history that was not the result of incursions by Europeans and Arabs. These journals asserted the fundamental blackness of ancient Egypt and investigated the history of black Africa. Editor of The Crisis ...

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Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity, Afrocentrism - History of Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - The debate over Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and black identity, Afrocentrism - Black-centered history and Africa, Afrocentrism - A different world-view, Afrocentrism - List of notable Afrocentric historians

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Critics of Afrocentrism counter that much historical Afrocentric research simply lacks scientific merit and that it actually seeks to supplant and counter one form of racism with another, rather than attempt to arrive at the truth. Among scholarly critics, Mary Lefkowitz's Not out of Africa is widely regarded as the foremost critical work. In it, she contends Afrocentric historical claims are grounded in identity politics and myth rather than sound scholarship. Like most other classical scholars, she rejects James's views on the groun ...

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Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity, Afrocentrism - History of Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - The debate over Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and black identity, Afrocentrism - Black-centered history and Africa, Afrocentrism - A different world-view, Afrocentrism - List of notable Afrocentric historians, Afrocentrism - Related topics

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Critics of Afrocentrism counter that much historical Afrocentric research simply lacks scientific merit and that it actually seeks to supplant and counter one form of racism with another, rather than attempt to arrive at the truth. Among scholarly critics, Mary Lefkowitz's Not out of Africa is widely regarded as the foremost critical work. In it, she contends Afrocentric historical claims are grounded in identity politics and myth rather than sound scholarship. Like most other classical scholars, she rejects James's views on the groun ...

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Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and the argument of African cultural unity, Afrocentrism - History of Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - The debate over Afrocentrism, Afrocentrism - Egypt and black identity, Afrocentrism - Black-centered history and Africa, Afrocentrism - A different world-view, Afrocentrism - List of notable Afrocentric historians

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Cultural appropriation, also referred to as cultural theft by its detractors or as a subset of acculturation by others, is the adoption of elements of cultural expression of one societal group, such as forms of dress or personal adornment, music and art, religion, language, or behavior, by an external group, without regard to the underlying aspects of what is being appropriating. It is possible for ...

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Black supremacy is the belief that blacks as a group are superior to members of other races. Black supremacy - Black supremacy versus White supremacy. In its simplest form, black supremacy is the racist belief in the inherent superiority of the "black race." Unlike many white supremacists, black supremacists generally do not regard their belief in black superiority as equivalent to white supremacy, which has caused many white supremacists to make the accusation that black bigotry is excused by society for t ...

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• Black supremacy - Black supremacy versus White supremacy
• Black supremacy - Rastafari
• Black supremacy - Nation of Islam through Malcolm X
• Black supremacy - Melanin and Melanin Theory
• Black supremacy - Black supremacists and organizations
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Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalm 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Täfäri, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the earl ...

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• Rastafari movement - Doctrines
• Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism
• Rastafari movement - Haile Selassie and the Bible
• Rastafari movement - Repatriation and Race
• Rastafari movement - Church and The Holy Trinity
• Rastafari movement - Physical Immortality
• Rastafari movement - Homosexuality
• Rastafari movement - Reggae Music Expressing Rasta Doctrine
• Rastafari movement - Politics
• Rastafari movement - Language
• Rastafari movement - -isms
• Rastafari movement - Ceremonies
• Rastafari movement - Symbols
• Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks
• Rastafari movement - Ganja
• Rastafari movement - History of the Rastafari movement
• Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey
• Rastafari movement - Early written foundations
• Rastafari movement - Early years
• Rastafari movement - Visit of Selassie I to Jamaica
• Rastafari movement - Walter Rodney
• Rastafari movement - Music
• Rastafari movement - Popularization and recording
• Rastafari movement - Reggae
• Rastafari movement - Rastafari Today

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The African diaspora or Afro Diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and culture of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, in places including Europe, the Caribbean, the Americas including United States and Canada, South America, Asia, and Central America. The majority of the African diaspora are descended from people taken into slavery, with the largest population living in Brazil. In recent years they include a rising nu ...

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Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist. Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 24, 1937, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano, clarinet and alto saxophone before focusing on tenor saxophone (he occasionally plays soprano saxophone). He is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late sixties which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African race, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contempor ...

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Caucasoid is a racial classification usually used as part of a system also including Australoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, and sometimes others such as Capoid. Caucasoid - Geographic scope. Physical anthropology defines Caucasoid with a pattern of physical traits typical of humans indigenous to an area centered on Europe, the Mediterranean, West Asia and South Asia. Populations near the edge of this area in North Africa show features transitional between Caucasoid and N ...

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Blaxploitation is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation”. It is a film genre which emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban African American audience. The films featured primarily black actors, and were the first to have soundtracks of funk and soul music. Although criticized by civil-rights groups for their use of stereotypes, they addressed the great and newfound demand for afrocentric entertainme ...

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Arrested Development is a progressive hip-hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s. It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal. Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the top ten. The group won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and Best Ne ...

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• Arrested Development hip hop crew - Discography
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Cleopatra VII Philopator (January 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC) was queen of ancient Egypt, the last member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and hence the last Hellenistic ruler of Egypt. Although many other Egyptian Queens shared the name, she is usually known as simply Cleopatra, and all of her similarly named predecessors have been mostly forgotten. As co-ruler of Egypt with her father (Ptolemy XII Auletes), her brother/husband Ptolemy XIV, and later her son Caesarion, Cleopatra survived a coup engineered by her brother's court ...

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• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Cleopatra in art film TV and literature
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• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Paintings of Cleopatra
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Notes

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Based on the single-origin hypothesis, black supremacists believe that, because human beings first evolved in Africa with darkly pigmented skin, blacks are more advanced than other peoples of the planet. They claim that the early, powerful black civilizations of Nubia and early dynastic Egypt are proof of inherent melanin-based superiority, as well as other examples of Afrocentrism. This contention, known generally as "melanin theory", is founded upon a combination of scientific information and pseudo-scientific claims, and has been a subject of interest among some African-Americans since the discov ...

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Black supremacy, Black supremacy - Black supremacy versus white supremacy, Black supremacy - Rastafari, Black supremacy - Nation of Islam through Malcolm X, Black supremacy - Melanin and melanin theory, Black supremacy - Black supremacists and organizations, Black supremacy - Compare

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Assumptions of European superiority arose during the period of European imperialism, which started slowly in the 16th century, accelerated in the 17th and 18th centuries and reached its zenith in the 19th century. The progressive character of European culture was contrasted with traditional hunting, farming and herding societies in many of the areas of the world being newly explored by Europeans, such as the Americas, most of Africa, and later the Pacific and Australasia. Even the complex civilizations of the Islamic world, India, China and ...

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Eurocentrism, Eurocentrism - Origins, Eurocentrism - Challenging Eurocentric models, Eurocentrism - Instances

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Based on the single-origin hypothesis, black supremacists believe that, because human beings first evolved in Africa with darkly pigmented skin, blacks are more advanced than other peoples of the planet. They claim that the early, powerful black civilizations of Nubia and early dynastic Egypt are proof of inherent melanin-based superiority (see Afrocentrism). This contention, known generally as "Melanin Theory", is founded upon a combination of scientific information and pseudo-scientific claims, and has been a subject of interest among some African-Americans since the discov ...

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Black supremacy, Black supremacy - Black supremacy versus White supremacy, Black supremacy - Rastafari, Black supremacy - Nation of Islam through Malcolm X, Black supremacy - Melanin and Melanin Theory, Black supremacy - Black supremacists and organizations, Black supremacy - Compare

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During the same period that European writers were claiming paradigmatic status for their own history, European scholars were also beginning to develop a knowledge of the histories and cultures of other peoples. In some cases the locally established histories were accepted, in other cases new models were developed, such as the Aryan invasion theory of the origin of Vedic culture in India, which has been criticised for having at one time been modelled in such a way as to support claims for European superiority. At the same time the intellectua ...

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Eurocentrism, Eurocentrism - Origins, Eurocentrism - Challenging Eurocentric models, Eurocentrism - Instances

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A common sort of cultural appropriation is the adoption of the iconography of another culture. Obvious examples include tattoos of Hindu gods, Polynesian tribal iconography, Chinese characters, or Celtic bands worn by people who have no interest in, or understanding of, their cultural significance. When these artifacts are regarded as objects that merely "look cool," or when they are mass produced cheaply as consumer kitsch, people who venerate and wish to preserve th ...

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Cartesian maps have been designed throughout known history to center the northwestern part of Europe (most notably Great Britain) in the map (however this model does ensure that land regions are concentrated in the centre without Eurasia being split in two). The regional names around the world are named in honor of European travellers and are in orientation of a Eurocentric worldview. A less Eurocentric term would be "Equatorial Africa", which describes the region of Africa in question. Middle-East describes an area slightly east of Europe. ...

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Eurocentrism, Eurocentrism - Origins, Eurocentrism - Challenging Eurocentric models, Eurocentrism - Instances

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