Creolizing Critical Theory

New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy

Kris F. Sealey, Benjamin P. Davis

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781538188019
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Critical Theory

Creolizing Critical Theory highlights the Caribbean as a philosophical site from which, for centuries and until today, theorists have articulated pressing critiques of capitalism and colonialism. Some of these critiques, such as those of the Saramaka Maroons, have stressed the value of autonomy. Others, such as those of the West Indies Federation, have emphasized solidarity in the face of European occupation. Critical Theory, as an emancipatory project rooted in the values of autonomy, solidarity, and equality, then, has long been a Caribbean practice. Drawing on a range of voices, Creolizing Critical Theory centers Caribbean critiques with a view toward praxis in the present.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Critical Theory at the Crossroads: Rethinking Modernity, Humanity, and Critique
• Chapter 1: Sylvia Wynter’s Caribbean Critical Theory
• Chapter 2: Creolization’s Newness: The Dialectic of Novelty and Sameness
• Chapter 3: The Promise of Manumission: Appropriations and Responses to the Notion of Emancipation in the Caribbean and South America in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 4: Against Ethnocratic Emancipations: George Padmore and the Racialization of Labor
• Chapter 5: Creolization from Below
• Chapter 6: Conserving Ethical Blackness: Recasting Political Blackness as a Commitment to Intersectional Justice
• Chapter 7: The Tricontinental Recollected: Anti-Colonial Marxism for Today
• Chapter 8: Strategic Anti-Essentialism: Stuart Hall’s Dialectics of Maneuver and Position
• Afterword: Critical Theory, Caribbeanized
• About the Contributors