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Cultural Wars and the Attack on Multiculturalism: An Afrocentric Critique

Florida State University

Edgar Tyson

Florida State University

The need to maintain power relationships has caused many social conservatives and the American anti-multicultural movement to engage in cultural wars. This article offers an Afrocentric critique of cultural wars and multicultural discourse in some of their contemporary manifestations. The authors make the claim that Black studies and the Afrocentric paradigm should be concerned with the connection between anti-multiculturalism, the cultural wars debate, and attempts aimed at derailing the Black studies project both inside and outside of the academy. Some contemporary challenges for the Afrocentric paradigm and its place in the multi-cultural project are discussed. The authors conclude that the burden of Afrocentricity is to define and develop African agency in the midst of the cultural wars debate.

Key Words: diversity • multiculturalism • cultural wars • Afrocentricity • Black studies

Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 390-409 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0021934706290081


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