Black nationalism

Black nationalism is a political and social movement prominent in the 1960s and early '70s among African Americans in the United States. The movement can be traced back to Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association of the 1920s. The UNIA seeks to acquire economic power and to infuse among blacks, "at home and abroad", a sense of community and group feeling. Many adherents to Black nationalism assumed the eventual creation of a separate black nation by African Americans. As an alternative to being assimilated by the American nation, Black nationalists sought to maintain and promote their separate identity as a people of Black ancestry. With such slogans as "Black power" and "black is beautiful," they also sought to inculcate a sense of pride among blacks.

The concept of race

The term "race", though held by many geneticists to be of little scientific value, still holds social value for many who (in part or in whole, actively or passively) gain group privileges by accepting genetic or appearance criteria for group identity or inclusion. In all parts of the world, identity reflects personal and societal perceptions of an individual's group membership and the group's relationships to cultures thereby defined as foreign. Thus "race issues" tend to be seen as related to tribalism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, and other "culture wars" paradigms.

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Race - Scientific - Tribalism - Xenophobia - Ethnocentrism - Culture wars - Paradigm

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Similar concerns that may be a catalyst for a distinction of personal identity are religion, gender, and language, and differences regarding these issues are often manifested in conflict of one form or another.

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Religion - Gender - Language

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See also: Validity of human races; Identity politics.

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Validity of human races - Identity politics

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