Afrocentric Infusion for Urban Schools

Summary

Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama have written a basic primer for teachers who seek to be excellent in urban classrooms. After decades of working with teachers in large urban areas and some smaller schools with concentrations of African Americans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominican students, Asante and Mazama felt the need to provide a lifeline to teachers who struggled to understand the basic cultural framework of African students. This book is an answer to the questions that are often asked about the source of information and knowledge or the contemporary school. Using an Afrocentric approach, the authors claim space for historical, social, and cultural knowledge that will “center” students and demonstrate for them the “agency” of African people in various historical epochs, locations, and phenomena.