SNRSCH1515 - AAAS 2242: Afrocentricity

Course Description

This is an intellectual inquiry into the origin, critiques, and arguments surrounding African agency in social, political, psychological, and economic contexts. Consequently the course concentrates on the concepts of centeredness, cultural location, orientation, and historical disorientation. Students will study the origin and evolution of Afrocentricity and its relationship to Negritude, Quilombismo, Kawaida, Pan Africanism, and Postmodernism. Students engage in an expansive reading and location of theoretical and critical texts such as responses to forms of intellectual marginalization and cultural oppression. Authors such as Asante, Chinweizu, Diop, Karenga, and Mazama are analyzed in the contexts of on-going African and African American struggles for liberation from all hegemony.