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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Main Author: Oluwayomi, Adebayo, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2025].
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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.