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Afrocentrism And The Peopling Of The Americas, Gabriel Haslip-Viera
Afrocentrism And The Peopling Of The Americas, Gabriel Haslip-Viera
Ethnic Studies Review
This essay focuses on a theory of human development that has been promoted aggressively by a group of Afrocentrists in recent years - that the Western Hemisphere was first populated by "Africoids" or "Black" people who came to the Americas by way of Asia and the Bering Straits with little or no change in their physical or racial characteristics. As discussed in this article, the theory has no support in the evidence collected by scientists in various fields. The essay focuses on the basic claims and methods used by the Afrocentrists to support their theory, including their misuse or misinterpretation …