001553162 001__ 1553162 001553162 005__ 20240709073737.0 001553162 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.58090/usi.1553162 001553162 037__ $$aIR 001553162 041__ $$aeng 001553162 245__ $$aThe African Personality: A Constructive Narrative to Pan-Africanism for Our Children 001553162 269__ $$a2026-09-01 001553162 520__ $$aFor the Africans, phenomena are spiritual, mental, and physical and are in relation to themselves and ourselves. The pedagogical journey from African-centeredness to Pan Africanism is constructively narrated using Critical Race Theory as a theoretical lens. These concepts are in the rebirth after being the genesis and standard of human academic existence from economics, education, entertainment, health, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war (Fully, 2021; Welsing, 1994) prior to the Maafa, known by Euro-American culture and its whiteness (Harris, 1994) as colonialism. The theoretic and thematic frameworks are constructed to analyze and articulate self-determination leading to healing efforts for the actualization of the proper growth against generational slave traumas (DeGruy, 2017) and current hegemony. These concepts, African centeredness, and Pan Africanism are pedagogically lived in maroon academic spaces where the expansion of social and economic growth theories is actualized to fulfill their unalienable rights as United States citizens through learning and teaching for a Pan African life. 001553162 650__ $$aPan-Africanism 001553162 650__ $$aEducation 001553162 6531_ $$aachievement gap, African-centered homeschool, African-centeredness, hegemony, homeland reality, Maafa, maroon, Pan Africanism, whiteness 001553162 7001_ $$aJohnson, Tracy L.$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana$$1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-5370 001553162 8564_ $$915bedb69-1f02-463f-aed8-f2e8781602b3$$s1039733$$uhttps://library.usi.edu/record/1553162/files/Tracy%20Johnson%20EdD%20Dissertation%20THE%20FINAL%20DRAFT.pdf 001553162 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1553162$$pGLOBAL_SET 001553162 980__ $$aDISSERTATION