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born 1942 United States
Molefi Kete Asante (born Arthur Lee Smith Jr.; August 14, 1942) is an African-American professor and philosopher.
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Also known as: Molefi Asante
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"Afrocentricity is a frame of reference wherein phenomena are viewed from the perspective of the African person."
Afrocentricity (1988)
"The Afrocentric approach seeks in every situation the appropriate centrality of the African person."
Afrocentricity (1988)
"Afrocentricity is simple. If you examine phenomena concerning African people, you must give them agency."
"The Afrocentric idea is a transformative idea; it takes people from the margins."
"Afrocentricity is a paradigm, an orientation toward data, a perspective, that says that African people are subjects, rather than objects."
A common expression among African Americans relates the good to the beautiful, "beauty is as beauty does" or "she's beautiful because she's good." The first statement places emphasis on what a person does, that is, how a person "walks" among others in the society. The second statement identifies the beautiful by action. If a person's actions are not good, it does not matter how the person looks physically. Doing good is equivalent to being beautiful.
Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge (1990)