Cultural Wars and the Attack on Multiculturalism

An Afrocentric Critique

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19002116
AutoresMartell L Teasley (0009-0002-7543-8747, Florida State University, autor correspondente), Martell Teasley (Florida State University), Edgar H Tyson (0000-0002-8665-8633, Florida State University), Edgar Tyson (Florida State University)
Ano2006
Volume37
Fascículo3
Páginas390-409
Data de publicação2006-11-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934706290081
OpenAlexW1991141049
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências 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