MDDM Folly, Rabbit in the Moon & American race relations inthe news

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

paul and i had an offlist exchange, and i was saying that
afrocentrism, just as eurocentrism, are the two faces
of a same coin. i was also saying that in french anyway, and as far as
i know, they both sound derogatory, and are usually used in a
derogatory way; the -centrist part of it being the bad part in both.
who was talking about dead skunks in the center? ha ha.

the idea to me being that there is no center but a network of shared
influences and power relations. african studies being important in
shedding light on overlooked parts of history, afrocentrism and
eurocentrism being instrumental in talking shit.
that's the way i see it anyway.

greg

PM> Doug Millison wrote:

>> MalignD maligned African American Studies without any help from me. He
>> sounds particularly bitter  on the subject, I don't presume to know why,
>> but it sounds like sour grapes.
>>

PM> I must have missed that. I probably miss a lot in only jumping in every few
PM> days.

PM> Did MalignD malign  AAS for the same reason and as blanketly as he maligned
PM> Ac?  There is plenty one can generally say about just about any special
PM> studies department. Much hot air is generated.

PM> Afrocentrism is truly bad business and doomed to fail as any kind of help
PM> to African Americans. The very word, as Greg points out, pretty well says
PM> it all.

PM> I suppose only the enemies of Afrocentrism call it that but don't really
PM> know for sure. No one would call themselves Eurocentric. The Nazis might
PM> have had some roughly analogous thoughts but would have drawn lines at the
PM> southern and eastern borders.


PM> Silly old P.





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