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Afrocentric, a. orig and chiefly U.S.|ˌæfrəʊˈsɛntrɪk|
Also Afro-centric.
[f. Afro- + -centric.]
Centring on African or Afro-American culture; regarding Africa as the source of black or Afro-American culture.
1967Freedomways VII. ii. 170/2 In the end our Eurocentric, rather than Afrocentric, conclusions merely confirm our pathological communion with the well-known..‘fallacy of misplaced concreteness’. 1973Black World June 49 The Atlanta University Summer School..will offer ‘a group of advanced Afrocentric courses’. 1976Economist 28 Feb. 108/3 Good examples of demolition are Mr Martin's critique of Mr Bodelsen's anti-imperialism thesis and Mr Hyam's critique of the ‘afrocentric’ thesis of late-Victorian empire. 1984Washington Post 26 Aug. b3/2 (caption) Howard University students organized and sponsored an ‘Afro-Centric Unity’ event yesterday at Meridian Hill Park in Washington. 1992Ebony Mar. 120/2 I've always thought of myself as an enlightened, Afrocentric person who considered all Black people beautiful.
Hence Afrocenˈtricity n., Afroˈcentrism n., Afroˈcentrist n. and a.
1977N. Gordimer in S. Afr. Outlook CVII. 181 (heading) From Apartheid to Afrocentrism. 1980M. K. Asante (title) Afrocentricity: the theory of social change. 1988Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 616/4 Eurocentrics attempted to curb the tide of Afrocentrism with vague pleas for cultural ‘universalism’. 1989Washington Post 7 Feb. b3/4 The importance of Afro-centricity is that it begins to let us know that we, as black Americans, are normal in the context of African people. 1989New Republic 11 Dec. 40/1 ‘Afrocentrists,’ thundered the Nigerian critic Chinweizu at a recent literary gathering ‘see the Nobel Prize as [etc.]’. 1990Washington Post 29 Sept. a21/2 Most parents..believe that an Afrocentrist view in urban American education is a necessary, though not sufficient, precondition for addressing those dire ailments. 1991Utne Reader July–Aug. 55/1 Black conservative Shelby Steele worries..that Afrocentrism legitimizes a sense of difference and victimization among blacks. 1993Playboy Feb. 17/1 Even before Afrocentricity became a catchphrase in the Nineties, the band invoked Egyptian and African cultures in its music. |