Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Na'im Akbar is a clinical psychologist well known for his Afro-centric approach to psychology. He is a distinguished scholar, public speaker, and author. Akbar entered the world of Black psychology in the 1960s, as the Black Power Movement was gaining more and more momentum. In the 1970s, Akbar published his first critiques of the Eurocentric psychological tradition, asserting that this model maintained intellectual oppression on African Americans. Akbar criticized the pathology perspectives that had taken over as the dominant literature on African Americans. Many of his major works involved mental health among African Americans. Holding true to the Afro-centric view, Akbar strived to remain faithful to the African perspective and argued that Western culture had imposed and continued to spread its unnatural order upon others in the form of colonization, imperialism, and hegemony.. }
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- Na'im_Akbar abstract "Na'im Akbar is a clinical psychologist well known for his Afro-centric approach to psychology. He is a distinguished scholar, public speaker, and author. Akbar entered the world of Black psychology in the 1960s, as the Black Power Movement was gaining more and more momentum. In the 1970s, Akbar published his first critiques of the Eurocentric psychological tradition, asserting that this model maintained intellectual oppression on African Americans. Akbar criticized the pathology perspectives that had taken over as the dominant literature on African Americans. Many of his major works involved mental health among African Americans. Holding true to the Afro-centric view, Akbar strived to remain faithful to the African perspective and argued that Western culture had imposed and continued to spread its unnatural order upon others in the form of colonization, imperialism, and hegemony.".