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Includes 100 people who range from former slaves such as Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley to more contemporary individuals such as Amiri Baraka and Toni Morrison. This book summarizes the person's life, work, and importance. It is accompanied by a black-and-white photograph or illustration.

The American Demagogue analyzes Trump's presidency through the lens of communication and Africology.

Since its first release in 2017, Revolutionary Pedagogy: A Primer for Teachers of Black Children has captivated educators and professionals in the field of education with overwhelming praise, offering both theoretical insights and practical guidance on pedagogy. While its focus is on empowering students of African descent, the principles presented in this book transcend ethnic boundaries and are designed to equip teachers with the tools to create revolutionary pedagogy to all learners. In the Second Edition, Asante:¿ Challenges the existing education system and promotes a commitment to excellence for all students. ¿ Corrects distorted information, and helps educators recognize dysconscious racism. ¿ Provides guidance for educators in urban environments, addressing unique challenges and unlocking the potential of every student. ¿ Explores the pressing issue of urban violence and calls for an educational revolution rooted in cultural identity and personal growth.¿ Shares personal experiences, lesson plans, and ideas to underscore the transformative power of culturally enriched education. ¿ Re-centers dislocated African American students and expand the knowledge of all other students in the classroom. ¿ Inspires educators and educational professionals to reshape education and create a brighter future for all learners.Whether you're an educator seeking innovative approaches to teaching or an educational professional dedicated to promoting inclusivity and empowerment, Revolutionary Pedagogy is an essential resource.

This book critically examines Ama Mazama, a prominent and leading female theorist in Africology and African American Studies, and her intellectual work. The author studies how and why Ama Mazama has evolved into one of the most popular Africologists in the field.

"If there''s anything that has prevented human beings from being human beings, then it is the discourse of racist ideas. Being Human Being cogently and clearly reveals the illusion, disruption, and distraction of racist ideas, which have left people conceptually stranded from the fullness of humanity. And this moving book goes a step further. Molefi Kete Asante and Nah Dove return us to the ancient idea of Ma''at-thus returning us to humanity." -Ibram X. Kendi, PhDAndrew W. Mellon Professor in the HumanitiesProfessor of HistoryBoston UniversityDuring a time of high racial tension, Being Human Being seeks to dispel divisiveness, and instead present a vision of a united humanity. With scientific basis established from The Human Genome Project, the authors explore what it means to be human, the myth of race, and the importance of common identity. The conclusions of the Human Genome Project discredit those who deny humanity''s genesis on the African continent; and, they allow for new examination of the fictitious basis upon which modern society justifies its divisions, privileges, and punishments. In this book, the discourse navigates the complex illusion of race by tracing its cultural and religious origins. Furthering the ideas brought forth in Ibram X. Kendi''s critically acclaimed book How to Be An Antiracist, the authors express the power in ending the language of race entirely, bringing forth a new era in which racism no longer plagues the human experience. With in depth evidence surrounding the colloquial misuse of the term "race," Being Human Being argues that the term human, robust and newly re-envisioned, eradicates the need for the illusion of categorical racial boundaries. The authors, in their acknowledgement of the differences that exist among humans, found that such distinctions are more easily explained culturally rather than "racially." Even so, habitual reference to these racial partitions are ingrained into many aspects of the contemporary landscape. Knowing this, Being Human Being addresses the challenges of exchanging race for humanity within mainstream media, academic circles, and pop culture.  Being Human Being depicts the importance of education in combating those who benefit from, and promote, racism. Educating the masses would allow multicultural, pluralistic societies to be achieved in a practical way. The authors suggest that humanity is hindered by its disunity, and that through concepts like Ma''aticity, the ancient way of becoming human, society can achieve its highest potential. Featuring an array of examples, illustrations, and theoretical models, Being Human Being demonstrates that the only race is the human race. 

The Precarious Center or When Will the African Narrative Hold? dispels the Western romanization of Greek, English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese to the detriment of African ideas and ideals. This text re-centers the African world and dispels the dominating myths and memes of Greek society, which have obliterated all other approaches with the false idea of European superiority in a multiethnic and multicultural world.  The Precarious Center strengthens global communication equality and frees the human spirit by challenging the assertive memes of the West to allow spaces for other cultural postures to thrive.            

Molefi Kete Asante confronts the socialist Pan African idea with an Afrocentric orientation grounded in history and culture, suggesting that the African renaissance cannot take place unless there is a commitment to creating an African community conscious of its own myths, origins, and economic, cultural, and philosophical traditions.

The first book to show the continuum from slavery to the black conservative movement.

In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time.

Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades.

Facing South to Africa is a bold synthesis of the ideas that have made Afrocentric theorists the leading voices of the African renaissance. Written from the vantage point of the philosophical and political discourse that emerged over the past twenty-five years, this is a highly readable and accessible introduction to African social and cultural criticism. Molefi Kete Asante engages in the practice of critical thinking by raising fundamental questions about how Africans view themselves and the world. Tackling the themes of culture, education, social sciences, the university, politics, African unity, and the prospects for peace in Africa, Facing South to Africa is a fresh, daring, and popularizing synthesis of the best critical thought on the issues of modern knowledge. Asante's plan is to reorient our thinking on Africa by asking questions of Africa and Africans rather than imposing preconceived, external ideas on African issues.

Radical Insurgencies draws and translates wisdom from Africology, history, sociology, and philosophy to stitch together various social and political concerns presented by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante in various academic settings. The book offers selected portions of significant speeches, an adaptation from the author's The American Demagogue, and a selection of conference papers presented in British Columbia, Zimbabwe, and the Chinese Communication Conference in 2011.

Afrocentricity allows the student of human culture investigating African phenomena to view the world from the standpoint of the African. As Ama Mazama has argued in The Afrocentric Paradigm, Afrocentricity''s implications are multifarious and constant. Since the publication of Mazama''s book two decades ago (and spurred in turn by Dr. Asante''s Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change two decades before that), the theoretical and critical works on Afrocentricity have exploded. Dr, Asante''s current book brings us into the 21st century with new avenues for research and critique.Readers will learn how to: ┬╖      Apply the Afrocentric method to transform human reality ┬╖      Usher in a human openness to cultural pluralism unlocking of our minds for acceptance of an expansion of consciousness┬╖      Overthrow parochialism, provincialism, and narrow Wotanic visions┬╖      Demonstrate the usefulness of an Afrocentric approach, beginning with ancient Kemet, to questions of knowledgeAfrican Pyramids of Knowledge delves into four areas: (1) The Intellectual Landscape, which details what constitutes the discipline of Africology, (2) A Mobilization of Ideas, which discusses the hallmarks of creative and philosophical origin as they aid in the critical process of African recovery (3) Confronting the Historical Situation, which proposes new ways to deal with the historical situation and (4) Asserting the New Cultural Reality, envisioning what innovative examination of agency could accomplish. 

Few critics have examined Fuller seriously and in some ways his work, like that of other black writers, has fallen outside the gaze of contemporary literary and dramatic writers even though he has received some of the highest awards in the nation. Part of this is because few African American dramatists have been looked at critically or studied in classrooms or spoken of in terms of their philosophy, style, originality, and brilliance. This book brings a critical reading and sympathetic location of Fuller''s drama in the center of African American dramatic and social history.

The authors contend that in Africa there exists only one religion with a vast array of 'denominations.' African religion is expressed in a different way by each of the denominations, which creates confusion for those who believe that there are more than one African religion.

Did the election of Barack Obama as President of the US signal real progress in bridging America's long-standing racial divide? This study discusses the greatest source of frustration and anger among African Americans: what the author calls the wall of ignorance that attempts to hide the long history of racial injustice from public consciousness.

Traditional Eurocentric thought assumes that Greece was the origin of civilization. This book dispels this and other myths by showing that there is a body of knowledge that preceded Greek philosophy. The author documents how the great pyramids were built in 2800 B.C., 2,100 years before Greek civilization. The popular myth of Hippocrates being the father of medicine is dispelled by the fact that Hippocrates studied the works of Imhotep, the true father of medicine, and mentioned his name in his Hippocratic oath. Eleven famous African scholars who preceded Greek philosophers are profiled: Ptahhotep, Kagemni, Duauf, Amenhotep, Amenemope, Imhotep, Amenemhat, Merikare, Sehotepibre, Khunanup, and Akhenaten. These scholar's ideas on a variety of topics are discussed, including the emergence of science and reason, the moral order, books and education, and the clash of classes.

Presenting research and scholarship in the field of African-American or black studies, this book contains three divisions: historical and cultural foundations; philosophical and conceptual basis; and critical and analytical concepts.

Summarizes the international, intercultural and developmental communication. This volume includes an overview of major theoretical and applied issues; processes and effects in international and intercultural communication; contexts; and, issues of conducting research on culture, language and communication.