The Case against Afrocentrism

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Index Abacha, Sani, 114 abolitionism, black, 14, 28, 35, 37, 38, 39, 68, 141, 143, 177 Accra, Ghana, 115 Ackah, William, 116, 168–69 affirmative action, 88, 130, 177, 184 Africa, construct of, 135–38 Africa Union, 115 African Baptist Church of Boston, 142 African Civilization Society, 74, 75 African Heroes and Heroines (Woodson), 84 African identity paradigm, 116–19, 121, 124 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 140 African Studies Conference, 129 Afrikan Diaspora Union, 94 Afro-Americanist perspective, 120 “Afrocentric consciousness,”15, 133, 134–35, 178 Afrocentric essentialism, defined, 10–11 Afrocentricity (Asante), 9 Afrocentrism vs. Eurocentrism, 9–10, 13, 14, 17, 87, 88, 89, 90, 97–98, 100, 152, 158–59, 160, 161 Akbar, Na’im, 12, 87, 88, 90, 98, 99 Alexander the Great, 91 All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, 94 Allegritti, Inta, 168, 171 Allen, Richard, 140 Allen, William G., 83 American Anti-Slavery Society, 48 American Colonization Society, 63, 65, 144 American Moral Reform Society, 40, 43 Ani, Marimba, 12, 26, 87, 90, 95, 99, 117, 122, 158–59 Anise, Laduna, 175, 178–79 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (Walker), 103, 140 Apraku, Kofi, 132 Asante (ethnic group), 70 Asante, Kariamu Welsh, 99 Asante, Molefi K., 8, 9, 12, 26, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101–2, 122, 151, 152, 157, 160, 176 Assal, Munzoul A. M., 164 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 84 Atlanta, Ga., 94 Austin, Algernon, 11, 12, 117 Ayittey, George, 127 Babangida, Ibrahim, 114 Baltimore, Md., 37 Barbados, 31 Baton Rouge, La., 27, 119 Beecher, Lyman, 36 Benin, 70 Berlin, Ira, 30–31 Bethel, Elizabeth Raul, 23, 24, 38 Birney, James, 36 black Atlantic/black Diaspora perspective, 161 Black Muslims, 8 Black Panthers, 8, 13 Black Power, 8, 13, 80, 107 black womanist perspective, 99 Black Women, Feminism, and Black Liberation (Gordon), 99 Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 56–57, 71, 79, 106 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 188 Boston, Mass., 37, 47, 103 Brath, Elombe, 95 Brazil, 121 Britain, 54 index 219 Brown, William Wells, 14, 74, 82, 104 Bruce, John Edward, 66, 76 Buffalo, N.Y., 49 Burundi, 125, 126 Cabral, Amilcar, 179–80 Cameroon, 126 Campbell, James, 32, 148 Canada, 36 Carmichael, Stokely, 8, 13, 79, 80, 107, 113, 176 Carter, Robert“King,”30 Cary, Lott, 64, 65, 66, 103, 108, 111, 138, 140 Casely-Hayford, J. E., 106 Charleston, S.C., 37 Chideya, Farai, 185 Christianity, 53, 65 Cincinnati, Ohio, 35, 37, 47, 141 citizenship, American: and Delany, 51; as goal of black abolitionists, 47, 48–49, 50 Civil Rights Act, 177 civil rights movement, 25, 72, 79, 85, 88, 107, 130, 151, 176, 177 Civil War, 4, 52 civilization, in Africa, 59–67. See also Egypt Clarke, John Henrik, 12, 87, 90, 99, 157 Cleveland, Ohio, 3, 4, 152 Cohen, Robin, 153, 154 Collins, Patricia Hill, 99 colonialism, 54, 78, 86, 95, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 114, 125 colonization, 38, 57, 62–66, 143, 144, 145, 146 Colonization Society, 56 color line, 3, 6–9, 19, 98, 152–53, 156, 157, 160, 187; and Asante, 9; and Delany, 3, 5, 6, 152–53; and Du Bois, 4, 5, 6, 77, 115 Colored American, The, 43, 142, 143 Compromise of 1877, 52 Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, The (Delany), 139 Congo, 125, 126 Congress movement. See Pan-African Congress tradition Constitution, U.S., 38; Fifteenth Amendment, 52; Fourteenth Amendment, 52, 177; Thirteenth Amendment, 177 convention movement, black, 36, 37, 38, 39, 141–42 Cook, Samuel Dubois, 34 Cornish, Samuel, 37, 43, 44, 142, 143, 178 Cosby, Bill, 169 Crouch, Stanley, 120 Crummell, Alexander, 53, 54, 55–56, 58, 75, 76, 79, 105, 109, 174; and civilization, 72, 73; and slavery, 56, 57 Cuba, 121 Cuffee, Paul, 64–65, 66, 73, 103, 108, 111, 138, 140 cultural line, 161 culture, African, 67–73, 92, 122. See also Egypt Curry, Leonard, 34 Dalton, Harlon, 122 Day, William H., 104 Declaration of Independence, 38, 144, 146 dehistoricization, 15, 21 Delany, Martin, 3–4, 5, 6–7, 14, 15, 53, 54–56, 58, 70, 74, 79, 87, 104–5, 109, 115, 155, 156–57, 174, 176; and African history, 82; and civilization, 72, 73; and color line, 152–53; and emigration, 50–52, 104, 139–40, 152, 156; and moral suasion, 50; and nationalism, 75, 76, 85; and slavery, 56, 57 Detroit, Mich., 144 Dickerson, Debra J., 20–21, 175, 187 Diggs-Brown, Barbara, 187, 188...