Journal ArticleJournal of Applied Youth Studies · September 1, 2024
The original online version has been updated to correct Figure 1. Old Figure 1. (Figure presented.) New Fig. 1. (Figure presented.) Proposed pathways of Afrocentric socialization on PYD among Black youth. The model aligns with Murry et al.’s (2018) Black f ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban History · January 1, 2024
While many scholars have examined the influence of European law, writing, and record-keeping on African land rights and property, few have analyzed semi-textual records such as cemetery gravestones. This essay argues that urban cemeteries, introduced by th ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Applied Youth Studies · October 1, 2023
Afrocentrism is a perspective wherein phenomena, ideas, events, and cultures that influence the lives of people of African descent are centered within the epistemologies of the African descent communities. Afrocentrism as a socialization mechanism for yout ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies in Society and History · April 19, 2023
To date, studies of imprisonment and incarceration have focused on the growth of malegendered penal institutions. This essay offers a provocative addition to the global study of the prison by tracing the emergence of a carceral system in West Africa in the ...
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Journal ArticlePunishment and Society · December 1, 2022
It has been argued that the debtors’ prison was abolished in 19th century Europe and North America because the institution contradicted the principles of modern capitalism; by confining debtors for unpaid loans, it punished the poor while hampering the cre ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social History · January 1, 2022
This essay studies changes to mortuary practices in colonial Gold Coast (southern Ghana) beginning with the British state's creation of town cemeteries in the late nineteenth century. It argues that the colonial state enforced cemetery burial because they ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of African History · March 1, 2020
Contrary to the belief that prisons never predated colonial rule in Africa, this article traces their emergence in the Gold Coast after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. During the era of 'legitimate commerce', West African merchants required liqu ...
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Journal ArticleSouls · January 1, 2020
In the 1990s, the political tradition of Afrocentrism came under attack in the Western academy, resulting in its glaring omission from most genealogies of Black thought today. This is despite the fact that Afrocentrism had roots dating back to the 15th cen ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of African Historical Studies · January 1, 2020
In the nineteenth century, constabulary officers in the British Gold Coast were emancipated slaves purchased for conscription. From 1870 to 1900, British officials bought enslaved men of “Hausa” origin, hailing from the Northern territories and the Niger h ...
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Journal ArticleHistory Compass · February 1, 2017
This essay locates the concept of Afropolitanism, introduced in the mid-2000s by Achille Mbembe and Taiye Selasi, inside a longer historiography on cosmopolitanism in Africa. Used to describe the multifarious ways that Africa is enmeshed in the world, toda ...
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