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Black activism

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Black activism may refer to:

General frameworks

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  • Black supremacy, a racial supremacist belief which maintains that black people are inherently superior to people of other races
  • Critical race theory, intellectual movement and framework
  • Ethnic nationalism, a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity
  • Identity politics, politics based on a particular identity including ethnicity and race
  • Pan-Africanism, a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry
  • Racial nationalism, an ideology that advocates a racial definition of national identity

Africa

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  • African nationalism, a group of political ideologies in West, Central, East and Southern Africa based on the idea of national self-determination and the creation of nation states
  • Afrocentrism, a worldview centered on the history of people of African descent or a biased view that favors it over non-African civilizations
  • Black Consciousness Movement, South African anti-apartheid movement in 1960s
  • Black genocide in the United States, the notion that African Americans have been subjected to genocide because of racism against African Americans
  • Black Judaism, Judaism that is practiced by people of African descent, both within Africa and the African diaspora, as well as within the Jewish diaspora
  • Black-Palestinian solidarity, political solidarity between Palestinian people and Black people
  • Hoteps, groups of African Americans who believe that they are the descendants of the Ancient Egyptians
  • Négritude, cultural and political movement developed by a francophone African elite

United States

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  • Black church, the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans
  • Black Hebrew Israelites, groups of African Americans who believe that they are the descendants of the ancient Israelites
  • Black is beautiful, a cultural movement started in the 1960s
  • Black Lives Matter, a political and social movement promote anti-racism
  • Black power movement, a branch within the civil rights movement started in the 1960s
  • Black separatism, a separatist political movement that seeks separate economic and cultural development for those of African descent in societies
  • Political hip hop § Black nationalism, a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning hip hop into a form of political activism
  • Racism against African Americans, dating back to the colonial era and persisting in the 21st century
  • Religion of Black Americans, religious and spiritual practices of African Americans in the US
  • Woke, a term meaning alert to racial or social injustices

See also

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