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 Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة (Re: Tanash)
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و المركزية الأفريقية – و هى عبارة جاء بها لاحقاً "أسينت - Asante" بينما كانت أفكارها قد تكونت قبل ذلك بفضل أعمال الرواد من أمثال الباحث السينغالى العلامة "شيخ أنتا ديوب" – هى و سيلة معرفية تسمح لنا التعرف على ذواتنا و على الثقافة و الحضارة الإنسانية منذ نشأتها و الى حاضرنا, مما يسمح لنا التنبؤ بما ستؤول اليه.
و خير ما نستشهد به للتعرف على أفكار المركزية الأفريقية فى هذا "البوست", الورقة التى قدمها الدكتور الأميريكى "الأبيض" "كريج موزس – Greg Moses" إلى دراسات الجمعية الوطنية للأفارقةالأميريكان عام 1995:
Greg Moses
Copyright 1996
First Presented at the
National Association for African American Studies, 1995
Back to Prepub Dir for Dr. Greg Moses
"Afrocentricity as a Quest for Cultural Unity:
Reading Diop in English"
For the past few years, I have enjoyed reading and teaching the work of Cheikh Anta Diop. His work was first called to my attention about ten years ago, and I have gradually read the books that constitute his translated works in English: The African Origin of Civilization, Black Africa, Precolonial Black Africa, The Cultural Unity of Black Africa, Civilization or Barbarism, and Van Sertima's edition of Great African Thinkers. Each of these books is a remarkable revelation itself, but taken together, they present a kind of stellar constellation in contemporary scholarship. If it was Asante who brought us the word Afrocentrism, then it must have been Diop who, before the word, brought us the light.
But first, why would a white scholar take interest in Afrocentricity? Well, the first dictum of philosophy is to know yourself, and Afrocentricity helps me to know myself.
The Journal of Religious Thought, in its 50th anniversary issue, has defined Afrocentricity as an "affirming mode of racial pluralism" (Cain Hope Felder, p. 5). Thus, "the central concern of Afrocentricity is to advance the position of African people in the world by affirming their identity and contributions, and by unmasking the biases and limitations of Western culture" (Cheryl J. Sanders, p. 11).
The goal is not to replace "white" history with "black" history, or "white" mathematics with "black" mathematics, but rather to promote a more plausible view of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences as products not of white culture only, but of human culture, more broadly considered and valued than white elitist intellectuals would traditionally allow. Thus, Afrocentric scholars espouse a much more inclusive valuation of human diversity, rejecting the exclusive, imperialistic, and dehumanizing aspects of Eurocentric claims to universalism in cultural and intellectual life. (Sanders, p. 12)
Afrocentricity is the idea that Africa and persons of African descent must be seen as proactive subjects within history, rather than as passive objects of Western history. Afrocentricity means reestablishing Africa and its descendants as centers of value, without in any way demeaning other people and their historic contribution to world civilization. (Felder, p. 47)
Although these definitions accurately represent Afrocentricity's pre-occupation with black history and culture, even with affirming black identities and contributions, it is a mistake to reason that Afrocentricity should hold no interest for white folks. As the above definitions make clear, Afrocentricity provides a fresh perspective on humanity in general, especially in a cultural milieu where the term "humanity in general" tends to refer to white folks.
In a minute, I want to summarize what I take to be some interesting and important meanings of Diop's work, but first I want to linger a little more on the problem that Afrocentricity poses to white people. There is a complex dynamic at work when Afrocentricity touches white America. Witness for instance the CSPAN vision of Khallid Muhammad speaking at Howard University. It was a rare moment of exposure. Afrocentricity in your face. Clearly, it was too potent for the patient, and caused a kind of overdose reaction. Nobody was able to focus on the compelling thesis of that speech, since we were all caught off guard by the details. But the thesis was as sound as the tongue lashing. A black holocaust has occurred, and if history were an even-minded pursuit, then the black holocaust would be accorded its status as an infamous horror of human history. But we have a whole psychology of dealing with the Jewish holocaust which has allowed us to demonize the Nazi Germans in a way that we are not prepared to demonize ourselves. And I think Mr. Muhammad knows very well the kind of psychological turbulence he causes when he insinuates that white Americans are the moral equivalent of German Nazis. It was a provocation, and he knew it.
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 المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 05-30-04, 08:15 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 05-31-04, 07:45 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Muhib | 05-31-04, 07:54 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-01-04, 08:56 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-01-04, 09:10 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Omer54 | 06-01-04, 09:09 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | mustadam | 06-01-04, 09:20 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | mansur ali | 06-01-04, 01:44 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | mansur ali | 06-01-04, 01:44 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | abuarafa | 06-01-04, 04:50 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-02-04, 09:16 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-02-04, 09:22 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-03-04, 09:32 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-06-04, 11:04 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-09-04, 10:30 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | mansur ali | 06-09-04, 02:19 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Bashasha | 06-09-04, 04:09 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-15-04, 10:44 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Tanash | 06-15-04, 11:58 AM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Bashasha | 07-05-04, 07:11 PM |
| Re: المـــــركـــــزيـة الأفــــريــقــــــيـة | Abdel Aati | 07-06-04, 03:25 AM |
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