Abstract
I propose this category of Amefricanity because it permits us to both demonstrate and refute the unconscious reproduction of the U.S. imperialist position which says that the U.S. is “The America.” If this were true, what about South, Central, Insular or Caribbean America and other countries of North America such as Canada and Mexico? Indeed, why do we consider the Caribbean as separate when we know that “The America”
historically began just there? How can we have a real consciousness about ourselves, as African descendants, if we continue to dwell in the “captivity of a racist language”?