Black knowledges/Black struggles essays in critical epistemology
<p><i>Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology </i>explores the central but often critically neglected role of knowledge and epistemic formations within social movements for Black "freedom" and emancipation. The collection examines the structural...
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
FORECAAST. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42047298*spi |
| Sumario: | <p><i>Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology </i>explores the central but often critically neglected role of knowledge and epistemic formations within social movements for Black "freedom" and emancipation. The collection examines the structural <i>subjugation </i>and <i>condemnation </i>of Black African and Afro-mixed descent peoples globally within the past 500 years of trans-Atlantic societies of Western modernity, doing so in connection to the population's <i>dehumanization </i>and/or <i>invisibilization </i>within various epistemic formations of the West. In turn, the collection foregrounds the extent to which the ending of this imposed subjugation/condemnation has necessarily entailed critiques of, challenges to, and counter-formulations against and <i>beyond </i>knowledge and epistemic formations that have worked to "naturalize" this condition within the West's various socio-human formations.</p><p>The chapters in the collection engage primarily with knowledge formations and practices generated from within the discourse of "race," but also doing so in relation to other intersectional socio-human discourses of Western modernity. They engage as well the critiques, challenges, and counter-formulations put forth by specific individuals, schools, movements, and/or institutions - historic and contemporary - of the Black world. Through these examinations, the contributors either implicitly point towards, or explicitly take part in, the formation of a new kind of <i>critical </i>- but also <i>emancipatory </i>- epistemology. What emerges is a novel and more comprehensive view of what it means to <i>be human</i>, a formulation that can aid in the unlocking and fashioning of <i>species-oriented </i>ways of "<i>knowing</i>" and "<i>being</i>" much-needed within the context of ending the continued overall global subjugation/condemnation of Black peoples, as a central part of ending the "global <i>problematique</i>" that confronts humankind as a whole.</p> |
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| Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (ix, 260 p.) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781781384664 |
