Foundations of Black epistemology : knowledge discourse in Africana philosophy /
This book makes the case for the concretization of a subdiscipline of Black Epistemology within Black and Africana Philosophy. As the first book-length consideration of various Black thinkers, specifically as Black epistemologists, this volume critically engages self-epistemologies and political epi...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Necessity of Framing a Black Epistemological Discourse in Africana Thought
- Chapter 1: Black Epistemology and the Derelictical Crisis in Africana Philosophical Thought
- Chapter 2: The Erasure of the Black Subject in 18th/19th Century Racialized Discourse of Knowledge
- Chapter 3: Phillis Wheatley: The Unlikely Black Female Epistemologist in the 18th Century
- Chapter 4: Against Mental Darkness: Black Self-Knowledge in Frederick Douglass' Anticolonial Epistemology
- Chapter 5: Seeking Truth: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Pioneering work in the Sociology of Black Knowledge
- Chapter 6: W. E. B. Du Bois's Development of Positive Epistemology in the 20th Century
- Chapter 7: Frantz Fanon on Black Knowledge and the New Foundation for Black Humanity
- Chapter 8: In the Spirit of Biko: Black Consciousness as Anticolonial Epistemology
- Chapter 9: I am We: Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Intercommunalism as Political Epistemology
- Chapter 10: Kathleen Neal Cleaver on Black Feminism, Black Knowledge and Black Resistance
- Conclusion: The Task and Future of Black Epistemology.