Afrocentrism

For people of African descent, both in America and abroad, the questions and facts of enslavement in the New World carry heavy questions of blame, assessment, wonder, and humiliation. For contemporary citizens of the Americas, those diasporic questions are borne of race, morality, disenfranchisement, and economic enforcement, raising larger questions centered in shared cultural experience. Conspicuously, if film, as art, is to be looked at as a cultural artifact, then black independent film and the

distinguished as Afrocentric. Evidence of this is given from Ancient Egypt’s geographical location, the Ancient Egyptian culture, and linguistics. What is currently known as afrocentrism is a cultural ideology first formed from the work of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century African-American intellectuals. Afrocentrism manifested into its current form because of the African-American intellectuals during the Civil Rights Movement and African-American Studies departments in black colleges

This week’s lecture notes, group discussions, and readings really resonate with me in all aspects. By reflecting on my childhood experiences in early 1980s in the United States of America, where I experienced discrimination from my fellow African American classmates, who believed that they have no association with Africa as a result, treated me very gravely through their verbal and physical abuse. I assumed their beliefs generated from the Eurocentric idea and colonization whereby assimilated and

Case Synopsis Linda Carter is an African American female that is twenty-two years of age. Ms. Carter has been diagnosed and suffers from several mental illnesses, such as Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar disorder, Depression, and Anxiety. Ms. Carter also is Intellectually Disabled, and was/is a victim of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and homelessness as a child and adult. Ms. Carter is the third child in a family of five, who parent substance abused. When Ms. Carter was nine years of age when she, and

This commercial for the Pantene Gold Series explains itself beautifully in its description, “Pantene presents a poetic celebration of African American hair elevating it to a standard not seen in mainstream beauty media. It features women and girls who are beautiful, confident, vibrant, and elegant and who draw personal strength from the strength of their hair – its texture, its style and its history” (web). This commercial was created to advertise the announcement of new Pantene hair products

In this paper, I will describe and justify the values of Afrocentrism by giving my point of view on cultural hegemony to eventually analyze my artifact. The topic of racism and police brutality is a widely universal issue that can be addressed through my own experiences in life. In my experiences through sport, I have been able to have first-person access and exposure to cultural differences having a direct reflection on my central argument which will be stated in my analysis/social-political conclusion

Boo! Ghosts are the most popular halloween costumes with children. Perhaps the popularity comes from the idea that children like hiding their true identity, a fascination that will continue into adulthood. In Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey is a half white and half black woman who has trouble incorporating her black heritage into her life therefore missing a piece of her identity. In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, characters described as a phantom or shade indicate missing or different identities

Afrocentricity is based on the ideology that African Americans need to re-assert a sense of agency in order to achieve sanity. Agency refers to the capacity of individuals to act independently and make their own choices. Afrocentricity looks at the history of the agents and the people that they interact with rather than economic status. This theory is about the “black perspective” of society opposed to the “white perspective” that society has deemed the one and only way to view things. The afrocentric

The fear of expressing sexuality forms a prominent driving factor in Helene’s failure to find a common ground in her femininity and matronly roles, resulting in her oppressing the future generations of black women. As established previously, being the “daughter of a Creole whore who worked” at a brothel not only created Helene in poverty but also in tabooed sexual expression (17). As such, Helene struggled for the rest of her life with the ‘Madonna or Whore Complex’, where she perceives that to counteract

In the novel Quicksand by Nella Larsen the main character Helga struggles to find her racial identity. She is unhappy with who she is no matter where she goes and the story shows the different treatment and conflict that she experiences in daily life. It follows this women as she tries to find herself in life moving from place to place. Helga questions her value in everything she does, work, relationships with men and those in her family. As a bi-racial women one struggles to find happiness and a