Meaning of Americentricity | Babel Free

Examples

“This paper is framed in two ways. First, by an editorial concern regarding the Americentricity of a special issue for the Journal of Research on Educational Leadership on leadership preparation.”

“While cultural capital is a non-variable for the purpose of this study, it is still important to contextualize the role of cultural capital within sport. Perhaps one of the largest reasons this must be considered is because the sports that are considered to be of high cultural capital for the purpose of this study speak to its Americentricity. For example, American football has arguably the highest cultural capital within the United States as evidenced by the high ratings it produces, fans’ obsession with playing fantasy football, and the revenue it generates in gate receipts and television contracts.”

““Cultural theorists, public intellectuals and cultural workers, as we in the left used to call them, at the front lines of theorizing this emerging phenomenon, have taken issue, and rightly so, with the Americentricity of my vision,” [Mark] Dery said, “for a more Afrodiasporic, pan-African understanding of Afrofuturism that bears in mind the legible impress of colonial horror, certainly all over Africa, but also elsewhere in Europe and so forth.””

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