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robinn137

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Which of the following results because of the existence of the bamboo ceiling in the United States?
 
  a. It causes people to blame African American parents for their children's failures.
  b. It results in the absence of cultural capital in Asian communities.
  c. It causes people to make negative judgments about Asian Americans.
  d. It makes people classify all immigrants as heathen and morally inferior.

Question 2

Discuss the Afrocentric perspective.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

It is easy to overlook how people's understanding of today has been shaped by the way institutions and even the very telling of history have been presented by members of the dominant group. African American studies scholar Molefi Kete Asante has called for an Afrocentric perspective that emphasizes the customs of African cultures and how they have pervaded the history, culture, and behavior of Blacks in the United States and around the world. Afrocentrism seeks to balance Eurocentrism and works toward a multiculturalist or pluralist orientation in which no viewpoint is suppressed. The Afrocentric approach could become part of one's school curriculum, which has not adequately acknowledged the importance of this heritage.

The Afrocentric perspective has attracted much attention in education. Opponents view it as a separatist view of history and culture that distorts both past and present. Its supporters counter that African people everywhere can come to full self-determination only when they are able to overthrow the dominance of White or Eurocentric intellectual interpretations.



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