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Briefly discuss some of the ways in which African American Studies has sought to address the dearth or lack of knowledge pertaining to African people. How has AAS addressed what many view as a “Eurocentric Bias” in the Academy? What are the methodologies and critical practices of AAS that have sought to address this issue? ...

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