Afrocentristn.adj.

1961 Amer. Antiq. 26 440/1 Leakey, the Afrocentrist, points out that ‘Darwin believed that the most likely continent in which to search for evidence of human evolution was Africa.’

1989 New Republic 11 Dec. 40/1 ‘Afrocentrists’, thundered the Nigerian critic Chinweizu at a recent literary gathering ‘see the Nobel Prize as a local European prize.’

1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation vii. 298 It would be a mistake to substitute the petty race-mysticisms of white supremacists and Afrocentrists with a grandiose American mestizo race-mysticism.

2006 Film Comment Sept. 35/2 These cultural politicians..count among their number Feminists, Marxists, Afrocentrists..and Semioticians.

1987 Amer. Visions Feb. 43/2 William Y. Cooper, an ‘Afrocentrist’ artist from Buffalo, New York, created this limited-edition serigraph.

1990 Washington Post 29 Sept. a21/2 Most parents..believe that an Afrocentrist view in urban American education is a necessary, though not sufficient, precondition for addressing those dire ailments.

1999 U.S. News & World Rep. 1 Nov. 63/2 Gates took issue with the core tenet of Afrocentrist theory.

2006 R. L. Harris & R. Terborg-Penn Columbia Guide Afr. Amer. Hist. since 1939 i. 4 This approach to the African American past might be considered Afrocentrist, as an examination of the black experience from the inside out rather than from the outside in.