Eurocentrism
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Eurocentrism refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to other cultures. The exact scope of Eurocentrism varies from the entire Western world to just the continent of Europ
Eurocentrism as the term for an ideology was coined by Samir Amin in the 1970s.
Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, circa 1670
Japanese Empress Shōken in Western garb, a sign of the reform taken under the Meiji era (1868- 1912)
Front page of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine
Afrocentrism
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Afrocentrism is a racialized worldview that is centered on the history of people of Black African descent or a view that favors it over non-African civilizations. It is in some respects a response to
Eurocentrism
…other sociopolitical critiques of the West, for the Indigenous critique questions the very foundations of Western ways of knowing and being." The terms Afrocentrism vs. Eurocentrism have come to play a role in the 2000s to 2010s in the context of the academic discourse on race in the United States and critical…
A 1911 copy of the NAACP journal The Crisis depicting "Ra-Maat-Neb, one of the kings of the Upper Nile", a copy of the relief portraying Nebmaatre I on Meroe pyramid 17