Cultural Wars and the Attack on Multiculturalism

An Afrocentric Critique

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19002116
AutoresMartell L Teasley (0009-0002-7543-8747, Florida State University, autor de correspondencia), Martell Teasley (Florida State University), Edgar H Tyson (0000-0002-8665-8633, Florida State University), Edgar Tyson (Florida State University)
Año2006
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas390-409
Fecha de publicación2006-11-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934706290081
OpenAlexW1991141049
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas10

The need to maintain power relationships has caused many social conservatives and the American anti-multicultural movement to engage in cultural wars. This article offers an Afrocentric critique of cultural wars and multicultural discourse in some of their contemporary manifestations. The authors make the claim that Black studies and the Afrocentric paradigm should be concerned with the connection between anti-multiculturalism, the cultural wars debate, and attempts aimed at derailing the Black studies project both inside and outside of the academy. Some contemporary challenges for the Afrocentric paradigm and its place in the multi-cultural project are discussed. The authors conclude that the burden of Afrocentricity is to define and develop African agency in the midst of the cultural wars debate

African american · Afrocentrism · Agency (philosophy) · Environmental ethics · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Race, History, and American Society