Blog 2

To be truthful the readings were sort of hard and I had difficulty understanding most of the vocabulary. I think that when you put to many difficult words in your writing it makes it hard for people to interprate and makes it bland. From what I got from the readings was that Asante differed from Hook, Hall, and West becuase afrocentricity was his main thesis. He wants people to know that when you talk about african american culture and history you can't just study it here in the united states, you have to go back to africa because that is were it all started. In his writing he blames europe for most of the bad image portrayal that is associated with some african americans. He talked about Eurocentricity and how many african europeans and african americans shun from there ancestry and try to be "white" men, but he also says that "wood may remain in water for ten years but it will never be a crocodile." Hooks, Hall, and West on the other hand differ from asante because there central focus is on other topics such as class and gender, how people still view african americans today and how we can change that.