Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology
Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology
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Abstract
This book explores the central but often critically neglected role of knowledge and epistemic formations within social movements for Black ‘freedom’ and emancipation. The collection examines the structural subjugation and condemnation of Black African and Afro-mixed descent peoples globally within the past 500 years of trans-Atlantic societies of Western modernity, doing so in connection to the population's dehumanization and/or invisibilization within various epistemic formations of the West. In turn, the collection foregrounds the extent to which the ending of this imposed subjugation/condemnation has necessarily entailed critiques of, challenges to, and counter-formulations against and beyond knowledge and epistemic formations that have worked to ‘naturalize’ this condition within the West's various socio-human formations. The chapters engage primarily with knowledge formations and practices generated from within the discourse of ‘race’, but also doing so in relation to other intersectional socio-human discourses of Western modernity. They engage as well the critiques, challenges, and counter-formulations put forth by specific individuals, schools, movements, and/or institutions — historic and contemporary — of the Black world. Through these examinations, the contributors either implicitly point towards, or explicitly take part in, the formation of a new kind of critical — but also emancipatory — epistemology.
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Front Matter
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Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: An Introduction
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“Come on Kid, Let’s Go Get the Thing”: The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black/Human
Demetrius L. Eudell
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Respectability and Representation: Black Freemasonry, Race, and Early Free Black Leadership
Chernoh M. Sesay
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Ethno-Class Man and the Inscription of “the Criminal”: On the Formation of Criminology in the USA
Jason R. Ambroise
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Dehumanization, the Symbolic Gaze, and the Production of Biomedical Knowledge
Jason E. Glenn
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Performing Scientificity: Race, Science, and Politics in the USA and Germany after the Second World War
Holger Droessler
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Imaginary Black Topographies: What are Monuments For?
Lubaina Himid
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The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition
Sylvia Wynter
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