Afrocentrism

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Common synonyms include: afrocentric activism, afrocentric analysis, afrocentric analytical framework, afrocentric approach, afrocentric diaspora movement, afrocentric methodology.

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Black African ethnocentrism. uncountable

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afrocentric activism afrocentric analysis afrocentric analytical framework afrocentric approach afrocentric diaspora movement afrocentric methodology

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colonial bias cosmopolitanism eurocentric methodology eurocentrism

Etymology

From Afro- + -centrism. The adjective Afrocentric dates to the early 1960s; "Afrocentrism" is attested from the late 1960s or early 1970s, both in the context of the civil rights movement and black nationalism in the United States.

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