Ethnic Groups

Sign in Modify your search

Narrow Your Choices

Format

Type

Articles containing

Sex

Life event

Date

Subject

Occupation

Era

Availability

 1-14 of 14 Results  for:

  • Ethnic Groups x
  • Education and Academia x
Clear all

Article

Ashenafi, Kebede  

Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

Ethiopian ethnomusicologist, composer, scholar, and teacher, was born in Addis Ababa. His paternal grandfather was Liqe Mekuwas Adinew Goshu, a renowned hero of the Battle of Adwa and a close confidant of Empress Taitu. His great grandfather, Dejazmach Goshu, served as a mentor and teacher to Emperor Tewodros. The most creative and artistic individual in his family was his mother, Fantaye Nekere, who composed verse and poetry. She taught Ashenafi about Ethiopian artistic forms, which he later drew upon for his work.

Ashenafi first showed an interest in music while attending Haile Selassie I Elementary School. After attending the Harar Teachers’ Training School, he taught music at Haile Sellassie I University and the Addis Ababa YMCA before obtaining his BA in Music (1962 from the University of Rochester s Eastman School of Music in the United States He returned to Addis Ababa to serve as the first official ...

Article

Bailey, Beryl Isadore Loftman  

Margaret Wade-Lewis

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
15 March 2013
Published online:
31 May 2013

the first African American female linguist, early theorist in Pidgin and Creole linguistics, and educator, was born Beryl Isadore Loftman in Black River, Jamaica, West Indies. Her mother, Eliza Isadore Smith Loftman, was a teacher, and her father, James Henry Loftman, was an educator who became an inspector of schools. Because she was of the middle class, Beryl Loftman was expected to converse in Standard Jamaican English. Nevertheless, she valued the rhythm, music, and style of Creole: “Though I was forbidden to speak Jamaican Creole in the home during my childhood, my use of Standard Jamaican English was restricted to the earshot of my parents, teachers. … With my playmates, brothers and sisters, household help, and the country folk, I conversed always in Creole” (Bailey, “Creole Languages,” 3).

Loftman was the eldest of six children and she and her siblings Lucille Myrtle Kenneth Seymour and Howard who died ...

Article

Barakana, Gabriel  

Jeremy Rich

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

religious and educational leader, was born to a family of chiefs in the town of Rusengo in eastern Burundi. The names and occupations of his parents are not known. He attended primary school in Rusengo from 1927 to 1933 and completed his secondary education at the Mugera seminary from 1933 to 1939. Barakana then decided to complete his theological training to become a Roman Catholic priest. He underwent training at the seminary in Nyakibanda from 1939 to 1947 and was ordained on 25 July 1947. Soon afterward, he went to the Vatican to study for a doctorate in canon law, which he received in 1950. Barakana thus became the first Burundian to ever receive a doctorate. Barakana decided to join the Jesuit Catholic religious order and officially became a member of this order on 20 May 1953 at Djuma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Article

Batibo, Herman  

Lutz Marten

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

Tanzanian linguist and academic, was born in Mwanza, Tanzania, on 1 January 1947, as the eighth child of Michael Masalu, medical assistant, and Melania Humbo. The family lived in the suburbs of Mwanza, a provincial town in the northwest of what was then Tanganyika. Before his birth, two of his father’s cousins had come to visit the family, but, because his uncle had mistreated him when he lived with them as an orphan, his father turned them away with the words “batiboyi abakanibyaala” It is not them who gave birth to me These words were used to call the newborn child in the Sukuma culture Batibo s ethnic group children are named according to events or circumstances at the time of birth The long name was soon shortened to Batibo and used as his surname At Batibo s christening the Bavarian priest administering the baptism found the ...

Article

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies  

Pathik Pathak

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
19 March 2007
Published online:
30 September 2008

Postgraduate research centre at the University of Birmingham whose staff and students researched and published in the field of cultural studies, which it was instrumental in inaugurating.

1.Inception

2.Inspirations

3.Methodologies

4.Richard Hoggart and the aims and aspirations of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

5.Stuart ...

Article

Class  

Graham Russell Hodges

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
09 February 2009
Published online:
01 December 2009

Class as a factor in the lives of African Americans in the twentieth century created mixed reactions. In a society that in some ways generally regards itself as classless, many Americans regard economic inequality as a social problem that needs fixing—through government programs or, preferably, individual initiative. For African Americans, the massive impact of race and racism seemed to render all blacks victims of white prejudice. W. E. B. Du Bois's dictum that the color line would be the major problem of the twentieth century had the effect of underscoring that African Americans were behind a racial veil apart from white Americans: material conditions made this analysis convincing. Until the late twentieth century, few African Americans could be described as wealthy, and fewer owned the means of production.

By the early twenty first century for the first time there were significant numbers of blacks with money and power In addition ...

Article

Ethnophilosophy  

Dismas A. Masolo

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
27 April 2010
Published online:
30 September 2012

Ethnophilosophy is both a philosophical concept and a name given to a school of thought or movement promoted by a group of African philosophers and scholars As a concept it stands for a body of knowledge as may be found within the general belief systems or worldviews of different communities which are purported to be philosophical in their conceptual implications The underlying position of ethnophilosophy is that philosophical ideas and views regarding different aspects of reality and experience are neatly woven into communities cultural systems such as in the different aspects of their language in their customary regulations of the conduct of everyday life and in the relatively more formal expressions of abstract thought such as one finds in religious beliefs and rituals What is required to expose the philosophical significance of these aspects of culture is a careful description that utilizes familiar philosophical terminology and categories of thought It ...

Article

Eurocentrism  

Jeremiah I. Dibua

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
27 April 2010
Published online:
30 September 2012

Eurocentrism is grounded in the belief that the European development experience is qualitatively superior to those of non-European societies. It represents a situation where the European civilization and experience are idealized and portrayed as constituting the epitome of world civilization toward which non-European societies should strive. Under the Eurocentric ideology, the world is divided into two: the civilized European societies and the primitive, backward, and barbaric non-European societies. Indeed, Eurocentrism is a product of the triumphant globalization of the European experience as clearly manifested in the concept of modernity.

Although the roots of Eurocentrism can be traced to the European imperial expansion that started in the fifteenth century its foundation was concretely laid during the Enlightenment and the scientific revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries The celebration of the European experience as superior to the experiences of other societies and as constituting the apex of human experience that should ...

Article

Fuze, Magema  

Hlonipha Mokoena

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

, Zulu printer, tutor, and author, was born near present-day Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. All that is known about his paternal genealogy is that his father, Magwaza, was the son of Matomela, who was the son of Thoko, and that the amaFuze (the Fuze people) were a sub-clan of the amaNgcobo (the Ngcobo lineage); his maternal genealogy is unknown. His exact birth date is also unknown. The estimate year is based on John William Colenso’s guess that the young Magema was twelve years old when Colenso, the Bishop of Natal, met him in 1856. Even these facts do not accurately establish Fuze’s identity, however, because at various times in his life he was known by different names. At birth, he was given the name “Manawami,” but he was soon nicknamed “Skelemu” (derived from the Afrikaans word skelm meaning rascal or trickster because of his repeated prophecy to his ...

Article

Kazahendike, Urieta  

Heike Becker

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

the first Herero convert to Christianity, a translator, a teacher, and a midwife, was born in September 1837 as the daughter of Kazahendike and his wife Kariaavihe in Hereroland in what is today central Namibia. Her family was among those Herero who were impoverished and displaced by the conflicts that were ravaging central Namibia in the 1840s (especially those between Jan Jonker Afrikaner and Tjimuhua) and who subsequently gravitated toward the early missions in search of shelter and livelihood. Urieta Kazahendike was about ten or twelve years old when she came to live with German-born missionary Carl Hugo Hahn and his English wife Emma, née Hone, who had arrived in Namibia in 1844. Kazahendike lived with the Hahns first at Otjikango, about 70 kilometers north of Windhoek, which the missionaries called “New Barmen.” In 1855 she followed the Hahn family to Otjimbingwe to the west of Otjikango From ...

Article

Mtui, Nathanael  

Ludger Wimmelbücker

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

was an outstanding local historian from Marangu on the southeastern slopes of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. His unpublished notebooks, which he wrote in Chagga and also in Swahili, focus on the history of the southern and southeastern parts of the mountain. Though he was able to have some of his own work published, it was through his unpublished writings that Mtui made his most significant contributions. Mtui used to liken his clan to the Jews because it had suffered exile, dispersion, and diaspora after being expelled from their original homeland, Mshiri, about 250 years earlier. In the mid-1880s, members of the Mtui clan left Mamba as a consequence of internal conflict and temporarily stayed in Marangu, the neighboring country in the west. The ruler (mangi Marealle I then invited all the remaining clan members to return to Mshiri Mtui was reputedly the first member of the clan born after ...

Article

Red Thunder Cloud  

Darshell Silva

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
15 March 2013
Published online:
31 May 2013

(also known as Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West, Carlos Ashbie Hawk Westez, Ashbie Hawkins West, and Namo S. Hatirire) activist, linguist, storyteller, performer, and shaman, was born in Newport, Rhode Island. There are varying accounts of Red Thunder Cloud's parentage and upbringing. According to his own account, he was born Carlos Ashibie Hawk Westez. As a young boy, he was brought up among the Narragansett Indians of Rhode Island by his Catawba mother, Roberta Hawk Westez, and his Honduran father, Carlos Panchito Westez. He is believed to have lived among the Shinnecock Indians of Long Island in the late 1930s. His actual home during much of this time was said to be on the Catawba Reservation in South Carolina, but he traveled extensively, visiting many Indian groups. This account of his early life has been challenged by Smithsonian anthropologist and ethnologist Ives Goddard who claimed ...

Article

Rickford, John R.  

Bethany K. Dumas

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
15 March 2013
Published online:
31 May 2013

linguistics professor, was born in Georgetown, Guyana, the youngest of the ten children of Eula (nee Wade), a homemaker, and Russell Howell Rickford, an accountant and auditor. In 1968 he began studying in California on a U.S. scholarship at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). He worked closely with anthropology Professor Roger Keesing and Professor J. Herman Blake, an African American sociologist who was working on the biography of Huey Newton (whom Rickford later met). It was through a program of Blake's that Rickford first went out to Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands, in 1970, an experience that he described as “life/career changing in many ways” (personal interview with subject, 2007).

Rickford once said that as a mixed race person his black consciousness and identity crystallized when he came to the United States He was elected president of the ...

Article

Schapera, Isaac  

Gregor Dobler

Article

Publication History:

Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

South African social anthropologist, was born on 23 June 1905 in the village of Garies in the Northern Cape, where his parents, Hermann and Rosie, recent Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, kept a small trading store. The family moved to Cape Town in 1911. After his mother’s death and his father’s remarriage, Isaac left home at fifteen and entered the University of Cape Town in 1921. He studied law but took social anthropology as a minor in his second year, following the lectures of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Cape Town’s first professor in social anthropology and one of the founding figures of British social anthropology. After his MA with Radcliffe-Brown, he went to the London School of Economics to write a PhD under Charles Seligman and attend Bronislaw Malinowski’s seminars. He returned to South Africa in 1929 lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the University ...