Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-African scholarship

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. - Bobet 15:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-African scholarship

Delete POV neologism. Outside of Wikipedia, this term gets 0 hits.[1] Yes, racism has been a part of European culture for centuries, but that doesn't mean this is a proper or recognized way to conceptualize it, or that cultural bias has always even been linked to racism. The second link offered as a "reference" is complete garbage, btw. [link has since been removed by article author] Postdlf 13:13, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Moreschi 19:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment—see also discussion at Talk:Anti-African scholarship, which further emphasizes my point. Postdlf 22:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm truly sad to have to recommend deletion. This looks like an important point but judging from Google it just doesn't seem to be of much interest. Unless someone can provide a list of print references discussing the problem this seems to be not encyclopedic material and original research.

• Perhaps the article needs to be renamed. It is no great secret that African contributions to world culture are routinely glossed over and there is a strong American/Euro-centric bias regarding which articles are accepted by scholarly journals. There is specific prejudice against articles from African universities. Without publications in scholarly journals, it is essentially impossible for either a university or an individual scholar to obtain professional recognition--hence, it is a vicious cycle. However, I don't think the phrase "anti-African scholarship" really describes those problems and even if it does, obviously no one is using that specific phrase to describe the problem.

RickReinckens 03:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I think Eurocentrism, American exceptionalism, or ethnocentrism generally are what we're looking for. But I think at its core, this article is just a restatement of the basic position of Afrocentrism. Postdlf 02:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.