African American Studies

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Afrocentric Perspective

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Afrocentric perspective on the African initiative and experience in the world, i.e. a view centered within the culture and in which Africans are the subjects and agents of their own history.

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Afrocentricity

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First it is to stress its intellectual value as distinct from its idealogical use. It focuses on the cultural and human quality of African thought and practice rather than on thought and practice as an idealogical conception and conduct. It is African-centered

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Agency

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The capacity and will to make history create and address critical human concerns in a meaningful and successful manner.

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'the Black Experience'

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used to refer to everything African peoples have done and undergone

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Black Panthers

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-transformed from nationalist community defense structure to Marxist-integration structure.
-founded in Oakland, 1966
-Huey Newton and Bob Seale
-aka Lowndes County Freedom Organization
-established a program of monitoring the police and defending their right to bear arms in self-defense

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Black Studies

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the critical and systematic study of the thought and practice of African people in their current and historical unfolding

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Cultural Genocide

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is destroying the bases of their life, identity and respect as distinct people, i.e. their values, language, land rootedness and practices

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Eurocentric

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centered on and privileging European people and culture at the expense of the culture and lives of the people of color

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Diaspora

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the dispersion of scattering people with common origin

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Discipline

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a specialized branch of study and knowledge

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Experience

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that which is undergone or lived through

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Holocaust

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is a morally monstrous act of genocide that is not only against the targeted people themselves but also a crime against humanity

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Holocaust of Enslavement

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is a Holocaust which expressed itself in 3 different ways:
-destruction of human life
-destruction of human possibility
-destruction of human culture

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NCBS

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National Council for Black Studies

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Pan-African

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including all Africans

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Segregation

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the legal segregation and unequal treatment of racial groups

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SNCC

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Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

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Us

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the organization