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单词 Africanism
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Definition of Africanism in English:

Africanism

noun ˈafrɪkənɪz(ə)mˈæfrəkəˌnɪzəm
  • 1A feature of language or culture regarded as characteristically African.

    非洲语言(或文化)特征

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both men use film to explore the specificity of Africanisms within the context of human universal as well as American experiences and social norms.
    • In 1949, his seminal research in Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect detailed the ways African languages impacted American English.
    • And then there are the personal touches: the South Africanisms, the local commentary on current events, and some of the most excruciating puns going.
    • While it recalls the Africanisms associated with adapting to new roles, language, and land, it also invigorates cultural consciousness.
    • According to the author, writing about the British Leeward Islands at the end of the eighteenth century, field slaves were allowed to retain Africanisms to underscore their inferiority.
    • In contrast Scylla is closely aligned with Africanisms, albeit in an alienated form.
    • She did so by drawing on her personal history, by gathering local stories, by collecting art objects, and by cataloguing Africanisms into Cuban Spanish.
    • So how might we see Africanisms, or African cultural traits, in the material record here?
    • In the newspaper, the Mayor wrote about changing place names on the basis of ‘a South Africanism that embraces the richness of our diversity’.
    • The cast-net has not yet been generally recognized in print as an Africanism, and awaits further research.
  • 2mass noun The belief that black Africans and their culture should predominate in Africa.

    非洲民族主义(认为非洲黑人以及他们的文化应成为非洲的主流)

    some proclaim a policy of non-racialism, others a more racially exclusive one of Africanism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I strongly believe in Africanism to the core.
    • He is considered one of the founding fathers of Africanism, a philosophy that espoused an almost militant pride in blackness.
    • The Folger's collections have proved invaluable to a project we have undertaken on Africanism in early modern England and English America.
    • She said the roadshows would reflect Africanism of the country's people through aspects such as the theme song.
    • But they were not offering a black version of exclusive white South Africanism - whites as well as blacks were part of the nation.
    • Another aspect of their Africanism is intellectual, a conscious stance that systematically questions the Western perspective on reality.
    • The city benefited enormously from but refused historic equality to Africanism that wove itself so thoroughly through New Orleans culture.
    • From his student days at Fort Hare where his ideas of Africanism began to ferment, he challenged the existing apartheid order which had extended its arm to educational institutions.
    • Narrow and all defined tribal loyalties are an obstacle towards embracing a broader sense of nationalism, Africanism, and democracy.

Derivatives

  • Africanist

  • noun & adjective ˈafrɪkənɪst
    • Research activism of this kind was found most visibly in the attacks on diasporic Africanist scholars.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Why does nobody care about blacks’ was a recent headline in the self-professed Africanist magazine.
      • Hearing these expressions the audience is, as it were, invited to read the scene informed by an Africanist perspective.
      • The authors of this narrative grapple with their white identity as they negotiate new identities that incorporate, sometimes in a romantic fashion, Africanist discourses.
      • It has received extraordinary attention in the media and has brought contemporary African art to the notice of the non-Africanist museum and gallery goer while at the same time sparking lively discussion among Africanist art scholars.

Definition of Africanism in US English:

Africanism

nounˈæfrəkəˌnɪzəmˈafrəkəˌnizəm
  • 1A feature of language or culture regarded as characteristically African.

    非洲语言(或文化)特征

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She did so by drawing on her personal history, by gathering local stories, by collecting art objects, and by cataloguing Africanisms into Cuban Spanish.
    • In contrast Scylla is closely aligned with Africanisms, albeit in an alienated form.
    • While it recalls the Africanisms associated with adapting to new roles, language, and land, it also invigorates cultural consciousness.
    • The cast-net has not yet been generally recognized in print as an Africanism, and awaits further research.
    • In 1949, his seminal research in Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect detailed the ways African languages impacted American English.
    • And then there are the personal touches: the South Africanisms, the local commentary on current events, and some of the most excruciating puns going.
    • Both men use film to explore the specificity of Africanisms within the context of human universal as well as American experiences and social norms.
    • In the newspaper, the Mayor wrote about changing place names on the basis of ‘a South Africanism that embraces the richness of our diversity’.
    • According to the author, writing about the British Leeward Islands at the end of the eighteenth century, field slaves were allowed to retain Africanisms to underscore their inferiority.
    • So how might we see Africanisms, or African cultural traits, in the material record here?
  • 2The belief that black Africans and their culture should predominate in Africa.

    非洲民族主义(认为非洲黑人以及他们的文化应成为非洲的主流)

    some proclaim a policy of nonracialism, others a more racially exclusive one of Africanism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But they were not offering a black version of exclusive white South Africanism - whites as well as blacks were part of the nation.
    • She said the roadshows would reflect Africanism of the country's people through aspects such as the theme song.
    • From his student days at Fort Hare where his ideas of Africanism began to ferment, he challenged the existing apartheid order which had extended its arm to educational institutions.
    • I strongly believe in Africanism to the core.
    • The Folger's collections have proved invaluable to a project we have undertaken on Africanism in early modern England and English America.
    • The city benefited enormously from but refused historic equality to Africanism that wove itself so thoroughly through New Orleans culture.
    • Narrow and all defined tribal loyalties are an obstacle towards embracing a broader sense of nationalism, Africanism, and democracy.
    • He is considered one of the founding fathers of Africanism, a philosophy that espoused an almost militant pride in blackness.
    • Another aspect of their Africanism is intellectual, a conscious stance that systematically questions the Western perspective on reality.
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