English Explanatory Dictionary

Afrocentrism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Black African ethnocentrism.

Word forms

Afrocentrism Afrocentricism

Etymology

From Afro- + -centrism. The adjective Afrocentric dates to the early 1960s; "Afrocentrism" is attested from the late 1960s or early 1970s, both in the context of the civil rights movement and black nationalism in the United States.

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