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I do not hold to nor necessarily endorse Afrocentricity and Africology. I do find that that Afrocentricity is deliberately misrepresented and malligned by the media. Most people simply follow the media rehashing of Lefkowitz' polemics without a second thought and accept that the construct of Afrocentrism, blacks are only capable of producing racist and sloppy scholarship, is Afrocentricity.
I take exception to the racist notion that all black scholarship which doesn't simply reguritate white scholarship is either Afrocentric, racist, or sloppy.
To the end of understanding Afrocentricity, though not agreeing with it, I will make a few posts looking into the field and exposing some of the more bizarre inaccuracies of its detractors.
My problem with Afrocentricity is that I can and do see things through African eyes and write about blacks as subject agents without constantly beating my audience over the head about blackness, racism, etc., and don't need a theory, political philosophy, or discipline to minutely prescribe methodology for analyzing, and writing/presenting materials on blacks, Africa, Africans, and the African Diaspora outside of the multiple fields sourced and employed in my research. My own Africanity and wariness of Euro/Med/Arab/Asain ethnocentric notions is enough to stear me through the waters of making objects of Africa/Africans/blacks/the diaspora and denying their agency or doing that to any other people of whatever ethnicity or origins I choose to study.
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there's a differnce between "dark brown scholarship" and scholarship conducted by dark brown people
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