Of Black Study
About this book
An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledge
'This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition' - Cornel West
Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom.
Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, Of Black Study focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge.
Especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university and allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: LivingāJune Jordan
- 1. Of HesitanceāW.E.B. Du Bois
- 2. Of HumanāSylvia Wynter
- 3. Of SpeechāJacob H. Carruthers Jr.
- 4. Of OrderāCedric J. Robinson
- Conclusion: DreamsāToni Cade Bambara
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
