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    The Puerto Rican Asili: An Afrocentric Revision of Boricua Culture and History

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    Genre
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    Date
    2022
    Author
    Berberena Alonso, Marimer
    Advisor
    Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942-
    Committee member
    Dove, Nah
    Nehusi, Kimani S. K.
    Animan Akassi, Clément
    Department
    African American Studies
    Subject
    History
    Cultural anthropology
    Caribbean studies
    African cultural unity
    African descendants
    Afro-Puerto Rican history
    Afro-Puerto Rico
    Afroboricua culture
    Afrocentric revision
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/8295
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/8266
    Abstract
    This study consists of an Afrocentric historical and cultural revision of the country of Borikén (Puerto Rico). The project interrogates the African aspects that continue to provide Puerto Ricans with a “national” character despite colonialism and other structural challenges. Through archival methodology and a comparative cultural analysis, it offers a new interpretation of Latin American and Caribbean history with regards to African phenomena and experience there. A proposed conceptual overview unites Cheikh Anta Diop’s theory of African Cultural Unity and Marimba Ani’s conceptual framework of the asili and presents the Puerto Rican asili (cultural seed) as unharmonious with a European utamawazo (institutionalized thought) and an African utamoroho (collective cultural behavior). Many African cultural aspects coming from the Bantu, Yoruba and Akan belief systems including some that assimilate Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) customs, were observed in Puerto Rico and its history, and framed as part of an encompassing African cultural unity.
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