Foundations of Black Epistemology
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Foundations of Black Epistemology

Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Foundations of Black Epistemology

Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy

About this book

Foundations of Black Epistemology is Adebayo Oluwayomi's bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. He engages in a rigorous historical study of Black intellectual history to show how seminal Black thinkers have long been interested in and engaged with questions concerning the phenomenon of human knowledge, and questions around human agency, including practical considerations regarding the social and political value of knowledge.

Foundations of Black Epistemology examines writings by Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Steve Bantu Biko, Huey P. Newton, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver. Each chapter addresses issues of self-knowledge, self-assertion, Black consciousness, or anticolonialism and its relation to personal and political epistemologies.

Oluwayomi offers innovative perspectives on the formulation, deduction, and interrogation of epistemological themes within Black Africana philosophy. By considering the important epistemological theories and arguments in Black philosophy particularly in the last 150 to 200 years, Foundations of Black Epistemology promises to generate new discussions around this necessary field of Black Africana philosophy.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: The Necessity of Framing a Black Epistemological Discourse in Africana Thought
  5. 1. Black Epistemology and the Derelictical Crisis in Africana Philosophical Thought
  6. 2. The Erasure of the Black Subject in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse of Knowledge
  7. 3. Phillis Wheatley: The Unlikely Black Female Epistemologist in the Eighteenth Century
  8. 4. Against Mental Darkness: Black Self-Knowledge in Frederick Douglass’s Anticolonial Epistemology
  9. 5. Seeking Truth: Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Pioneering Work in the Sociology of Black Knowledge
  10. 6. W.E.B. Du Bois’s Development of Positive Epistemology in the Twentieth Century
  11. 7. Frantz Fanon on Black Knowledge and the New Foundation for Black Humanity
  12. 8. In the Spirit of Biko: Black Consciousness as Anticolonial Epistemology
  13. 9. I Am We: Huey P. Newton’s Revolutionary Intercommunalism as Political Epistemology
  14. 10. Kathleen Neal Cleaver on Black Feminism, Black Knowledge, and Black Resistance
  15. Conclusion: The Task and Future of Black Epistemology
  16. Notes
  17. Index