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Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial TimesPan-Africanism: Histories, Synergies and Contradictions

Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times: Pan-Africanism: Histories, Synergies and... [This chapter traces some of the key moments in the history of Pan-Africanism with a particular emphasis on questions of identity and belonging as conceptual bridges between Pan-African thought and psychology. We present the variety, multivocality, and complexity of Pan-African theories, modalities, and enactments that provide insights into the rich diversity of ideas, possibilities, and contradictions that have spanned the movement over decades and arguably centuries. Partially historical, partially conceptual, the chapter highlights the identity constructions of blackness and Africanness as seen through the lens of important figures and strands in the Pan-African movement, such as Négritude, Double-Consciousness, Afrocentricity, Garveyism, African Womanism, amongst others; and other conceptual tools important to critical orientations to psychology, including notions of unity, solidarity, self-determination, and collective consciousness. These ideas and concepts are critically considered and they provide the framework upon which the remaining chapters are located, delineating a common thread across the various psychological interrogations of contemporary and past challenges for the continent and the diaspora.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial TimesPan-Africanism: Histories, Synergies and Contradictions

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-89350-7
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21 –50
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10.1007/978-3-030-89351-4_2
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[This chapter traces some of the key moments in the history of Pan-Africanism with a particular emphasis on questions of identity and belonging as conceptual bridges between Pan-African thought and psychology. We present the variety, multivocality, and complexity of Pan-African theories, modalities, and enactments that provide insights into the rich diversity of ideas, possibilities, and contradictions that have spanned the movement over decades and arguably centuries. Partially historical, partially conceptual, the chapter highlights the identity constructions of blackness and Africanness as seen through the lens of important figures and strands in the Pan-African movement, such as Négritude, Double-Consciousness, Afrocentricity, Garveyism, African Womanism, amongst others; and other conceptual tools important to critical orientations to psychology, including notions of unity, solidarity, self-determination, and collective consciousness. These ideas and concepts are critically considered and they provide the framework upon which the remaining chapters are located, delineating a common thread across the various psychological interrogations of contemporary and past challenges for the continent and the diaspora.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

Keywords: Pan-African history; Movement; Institutions; Africa and the diaspora; Black identity

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