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Will this be expanded or just left as it is? It is a negative trait after all. There is a reason why African-American historians like Clarence E. Walker have called it
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Will this be expanded or just left as it is? It is a negative trait after all. There is a reason why African-American historians like Clarence E. Walker have called it \"a mythology that is racist, reactionary, essentially therapeutic and is Eurocentrism in black face.\" Which is why it needs to be rewritten and order of paragraphs needs to be swapped IMO. Keep the definition, talk about the positives, and then about the negatives. This is an example of a positive coming from Afrofuturism:
\'\'Another common aspect of Afrofuturism is deliberate pushback against the lack of black (or at least non-white) characters in science fiction, and stereotypes of Africa as a primitive third-world nation and its people as savages or poverty-stricken waifs who can\'t grasp superior Western technology.\'\'
And Dery\'s essay provides examples of such Afrocentrist views, since is historically inaccurate, and a type of inaccuracy created by Eurocentrism as expected, though I don\'t intend to open that can of worms now.
But this has to be mentioned in the description what it is. It\'s the only adjective used in this sentence \"elements of Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Afrocentrism, and Magic Realism \" that doesn\'t link to its own page, so I guess it has to be explained in this particular page here.
Simply put, Afrocentrism keeps Eurocentrist narratives as the privileged views, except for the people involved change to black. Bad History has tackled [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/27xtuv/so_much_afrocentrism_i_dont_even_know_where_to/ this]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3rsez3/afrocentrism_irish_edition_linguistic/ multiple]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3778vp/afrocentrism_gone_wild_crazy_and_alexander_the/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=badhistory times]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/23wrzh/on_tumblr_a_user_claims_that_cleopatra_was_black/ in]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2uj8rc/afrocentric_history_and_the_boogeyman_named_rape/ the]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/4bkedl/lets_talk_some_about_the_fundamental_problems/ past]], so if you want examples, just read those. It can act as criticism of Eurocentrism if done deliberately, but can also continue spreading the issues of Eurocentrism if not so.
\'\'Another common aspect of Afrofuturism is deliberate pushback against the lack of black (or at least non-white) characters in science fiction, and stereotypes of Africa as a primitive third-world nation and its people as savages or poverty-stricken waifs who can\'t grasp superior Western technology.\'\'
And Dery\'s essay provides examples of such Afrocentrist views, since is historically inaccurate, and a type of inaccuracy created by Eurocentrism as expected, though I don\'t intend to open that can of worms now.
But this has to be mentioned in the description what it is. It\'s the only adjective used in this sentence \"elements of Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Afrocentrism, and Magic Realism \" that doesn\'t link to its own page, so I guess it has to be explained in this particular page here.
Simply put, Afrocentrism keeps Eurocentrist narratives as the privileged views, except for the people involved change to black. Bad History has tackled [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/27xtuv/so_much_afrocentrism_i_dont_even_know_where_to/ this]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3rsez3/afrocentrism_irish_edition_linguistic/ multiple]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3778vp/afrocentrism_gone_wild_crazy_and_alexander_the/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=badhistory times]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/23wrzh/on_tumblr_a_user_claims_that_cleopatra_was_black/ in]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2uj8rc/afrocentric_history_and_the_boogeyman_named_rape/ the]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/4bkedl/lets_talk_some_about_the_fundamental_problems/ past]], so if you want examples, just read those. It can act as criticism of Eurocentrism if done deliberately, but can also continue spreading the issues of Eurocentrism if not so.
