First Humanist Theory

Although Molfi Kete Asante was not the first humanist to discuss Afrocentricity, he was the first to popularize this social change theory. This paradigm represents the belief that people of African descent should reassert a sense of agency in order to achieve sanity. (Asante par.1) This theory uses an African vantage point to determine how Africans would be different with the exclusion of having contact with people of European descent. This theory poses questions such as, “what would African people do, if there were no white people?” (Asante par. 3) This question allows scholars and students to wonder how the thoughts of people of African descent would be different today, if they had never came into contact with people of European descent during the colonial period and enslavement period that occurred in America. This theory allows me to formulate questions such as, “If Africans had never came into contact with Europeans, would the majority of us as Black southeasterners be Christians or would we be another religion?” This …show more content…
Alice Walker, alone, described the term in a couple of different ways. She once described the term as being a unique description for black women, due to the history of racial and gender oppression that they experienced. According to Collins, Walker suggests, “Womanish” girls acted in outrageous, courageous, and willful ways, attributes that that freed them from the conventions long limiting white women.” (10) Walker second definition describes womanism as being exclusively specific to black women, implying that black women are superior to black women. She claims that black women are womanists, while white women are merely feminists. I define Womanists as being women modern, contemporary women who are no afraid to voice the opinions to other females, men, or other ethnicities. Although the terms Womanists and feminists are used interchangeably, there is a