Key Terms
Anti-Black Racism: Racism directed exclusively towards Black people and only experienced by Black people. It is Racism, created by white supremacy that fulfils the concepts they created like the racial hierarchy order that sees Black positioned furthest away from White people and exclusively punished for being Black.
Anti-Blackness: A culture and dislike of Black people that is rooted in Anti- Black Racism/ prejudice. It is a globalized issue and even people of color take part in it.
Afro- Pessimism: Can be understood as “a lens of interpretation that accounts for civil society’s dependence on anti-black violence—a regime of violence that positions black people as internal enemies of civil society. Afro-pessimism describes the ongoing effects of racism, colonialism, rooted in the historical processes of Trans-Atlantic slave trade and its ongoing impact on structural conditions as well as personal, subjective, and lived experience and embodied reality.
Garveyism: Garveyism is an aspect of Pan- Africanism and internationalism that refers to the economic, racial and political policies of UNIA-ACL founder Marcus Garvey.
Pan- Africanism: Pan-Africanism (a.k.a Black Internationalism) is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diaspora ethnic groups of African descent. At its core, pan-Africanism is a belief that "African people, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny". Pan-Africanism is unity between Africans in the UK, Americas, the Caribbean and on the continent itself.
Black Internationalism: Black Liberation Struggles although situated mainly in specific localities are connected in some conscious way to an overarching notion of Black Liberation. At the core of Black Internationalism is the ideal of universal emancipation
Afrophobia: Afrophobia or Anti-African sentiment is a perceived fear and hatred of the cultures and peoples of Africa.
Afrocentrism: is an approach to the study of world history that focuses on the history of people of African descent.
Afro-Centricity: Is a worldview that positions the Views and perscriptives on matters from a view informed by the African world experience rooted in our historiography as Africans.
Colourism: the preferential treatment of lighter-skinned individuals compared with their darker-skinned counterparts.
Featurism: A form of eurocentric architectural design based around promoting and valuing certain facial features”. Society’s acceptance or preferring certain features over others (i.e. European features over perceived or common African features).
Hair Texture Discrimination : Curl pattern discrimination that sees hair that is perceived as thicker to some or more closer texture to an Afro being seen as undesirable and being view negatively
Misogynoir : Misogynoir is misogyny directed towards black women where race and gender both play roles in bias. The term was coined by Moya Bailey, who created the term to address misogyny directed toward black women in American/ Western visual and popular culture
Afro-Futruism : Afrofuturism (coined by Mark Daley) can be defined as the intersection of imagination, technology, the future and liberation” It is the philosophy and art of science fiction, and history that traverses across African Diaspora culture rooted in African cultures mixed with technology. It is a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens outside the white narratives rooted in anti-blackness.
Wakandafication: Term by Jade Bentil. The mixing of African cultures together in a fictional way like in Wakanda, to showcase African as one homogenous culture. This invalidates individual Black cultural production and feeds into the idea that Africa is one country.