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ERIC Number: EJ488893
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Does Academic Correctness Repress Separatist or Afrocentrist Scholarship?
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.; And Others
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n2 p40-48 Win 1993-94
Provides several viewpoints on whether black studies departments are considered academically respectable or prestigious if they take a separatist or Afrocentrist approach to the study of black history and culture. Additionally, the article examines whether certain areas of black research are dismissed because they are considered scholarly unsound. (GLR)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black History, Black Studies, Curriculum Enrichment, Departments, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Social History
Publication Type: Reports - General; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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