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Aaron X. Smith, Ph.D.

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The Afrocentric theory has been highly influential, particularly in reshaping perspectives on African history, culture, and identity. This groundbreaking theoretical paradigm has played a crucial role in challenging Eurocentric narratives and expanding existing academic disciplines.

Assistant Professor, Africology and African American Studies

Dr. Smith currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. He is the author of The Murder of Octavius Catto (featured in the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia 2015). Smith has also published multiple entries in the Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage (2015) and a chapter on James Baldwin titled, “Boundless Baldwin” recently published in, Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies. His innovative artistic presentation style has gained him the name, “The Rapping Professor”. During his short tenure at Temple University, Dr. Smith has quickly been recognized as a dynamic and innovative speaker, educator, artist and facilitator who utilizes his vast wealth of knowledge, uncanny energy and unique oratorical abilities to translate Hip-Hop culture into a universal language of leadership, learning and love. During his professorship he has been focused on developing unique and dynamic ways to actively engage the Gen Z students of today in an effort to solidify their love of learning.

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This work tells just such a story and many others. Afrocentricity, a trans-generational and transdisciplinary movement centering on African agency and truth, has taken the academic world by storm! The newness of the Afrocentric ideas, concepts, and facts led by Molefi Kete Asante introduced was as shocking to narrow Eurocentric academic sensibilities as the fact the carriers of the messages were overwhelmingly Black.

- Aaron X. Smith, Ph.D.

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