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Afrikan Contribution to International Relations Theory
2016 •
Tshepo Mvulane Moloi
The academic field of IR has been haunted by its Westerncentric philosophical founding masters. This has consequently led almost the overall (if not the entire) literature, of this particular academic discipline, to have become a typical platform wherein the Eurocentric driven master-narratives have become consolidated, as the norm. The interrogation of pedagogy thus led to concerns of indoctrination, as a direct result of the dogmatic views (as specifically derived and driven by the literature of Western philosophy), which overtime has informed the bulk of IR (theory) literature. Themes of racism, dynamics introduced by the role of language, sexism, (Feminism, gender, patriarchy) even the age factor of authoritative IR theorists, amongst other factors, are thus brought afore and engaged in detail, hopefully not in an overly complex manner.
The Imhotep Journal (ISSN 2160-6188)
lmhotep Journal
2019 •
Tarik A . Richardson, Ph.D., Autumn Raynor, Naaja Rogers
. 30 years ago, in January 1989, the Imhotep Graduate Student Journal was first published as a platform to explore global African phenomena. This year’s addition seeks to continue the tradition of stimulating discourse and critical thought from a new generation of graduate students and young professionals. Although initially created as an outlet for graduate students at Temple University’s Department of Africology and African American Studies, the journal welcomes quality submissions from graduate students and recent graduates from post-bachelor programs.
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Afrocentrism Revisited: Africa in the Philosophy of Black Nationalism
2021 •
Sarah Balakrishnan
In the 1990s, the political tradition of Afrocentrism came under attack in the Western academy, resulting in its glaring omission from most genealogies of Black thought today. This is despite the fact that Afrocentrism had roots dating back to the 15th century, shaping movements like Pan-Africanism and Négritude. It is also despite the fact that the tradition resulted in important cornerstones of Black American life: the holiday of Kwanzaa, the discipline of Black Studies, and independent Afrocentric schools. This essay revisits Afrocentrism as a foundation for the Black Radical Tradition. It argues that Afrocentrism presupposed the relationship between Blackness and Africa to be the central problem for emancipatory thought. Re-embracing Africa not only meant resistance; it targeted the originary thread of political modernity itself–that is, the separation of Blackness from Africa.
The Imhotep Research Journal
The Imhotep Research Journal
2022 •
Jazmin Evans
The Imhotep Graduate Student Journal was first published as a platform to explore global African phenomena. This year’s edition seeks to continue the tradition of stimulating discourse and critical thought from a new generation of graduate students and young professionals.
The Imhotep Journal
The Imhotep Journal - Fall 2022
2022 •
Jazmin Evans
Using African Cultural and Liberating Concepts
2019 •
Sean Nichols
The purpose of this autoethnography is to explore the impact on learning for a delineated cultural and ethnographic student population when the instructional process is interwoven with a plethora of student-reflective cultural and ethnic information and knowledge gained through the process of in plethora of knowledge and valuable information of retelling rich stories of students, parents, teachers, and stakeholders conveyed from an emancipatory perspective. I believe that these stories can assist in improving the educational conditions of children of African descent in the United States and the diaspora. Throughout my life, I have wondered about the absence of my history and culture in textbooks, media, economics, the medical industry, the military, and the educational system. As a young male child of African descent growing up in the state of Mississippi, I can recall my mother telling me that I would always ask questions about society because the educational system never seemed ri...
Socialism and Democracy
The Utopian Worldview of Afrocentricity: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy
2011 •
Stephen C Ferguson II
Pre-slave trade and pre-colonial Africa in the historical consciousness of African-Americans and African migrants in the USA
2016 •
Dmitri Bondarenko
African Americans, who are descendants of slaves forcibly brought from Africa to America hundreds of years ago, and contemporary voluntary African migrants to the USA do not form a single “black community”. This statement contradicts the claims of many Black Nationalist movements from the nineteenth century onwards, which argued that all black people are “brothers and sisters” because they share common spirituality and have a common cause that demands their joint action all around the world. However, based on evidence collected in seven states in 2013 – 2015, African Americans and contemporary African migrants appear to have different historic memories of pre-slave trade and pre-colonial Africa. Furthermore, the two groups identify different events as key to its history. Many members of both groups do not feel that they share a common “black history”. To some extent, the idea of a shared history acts to unite Africans and African Americans as victims of long-lasting white domination. However, in the final analysis, the collective historic memory of both groups works more to separate them from each other by generating and supporting contradictory or even negative images of mutual perception. In general, the relations between African Americans and recent African migrants are characterized by simultaneous mutual attraction and repulsion of two magnets. While they understand that among all ethno-racial communities in the country, they, as well as African Caribbeans, are the closest to each other, myriads of differences cause mutual repulsion. This attraction-repulsion effect is, in significant part, due to the differences in historic memory of African Americans and recent African migrants in the USA.
Journal of Black Studies
The Afrocentric Paradigm
2001 •
Ama Mazama
Reinforcing The Afrocentric Paradigm: a theoretical project
2020 •
Ama Mazama
Thomas Kuhn's 1962 groundbreaking work, The Scientific Revolution, established the process for creating, and the components of, a disciplinary paradigm. This "scientific revolution" has evolved to become the standard for determining a field's claim to disciplinary status. In 2001 and 2003, Ama Mazama, used Kuhn's model to establish the disciplinary status of Africology, through the categorical structuring of the Afrocentric Paradigm. Though her work conclusively made the claim that Africology is a legitimate academic discipline, still more work remained in effort to meet other criterion set forth by Kuhn. Through the use of content analysis, this work extends Mazama's work by addressing four additional areas of paradigm development that was established by Kuhn: (1) the scientific revolutionary moment for the discipline; (2) the nature of consensus among the scholars of the discipline; (3) the intellectual identity of the discipline's scholars; and (4) t...
