1 option
Foundations of Black epistemology : knowledge discourse in Africana philosophy / Adebayo Oluwayomi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oluwayomi, Adebayo, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Black.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Black people--Intellectual life.
- Black people.
- epistemology.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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 epistemologies offered from a Black philosophical perspective"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oluwayomi, Adebayo, 1981- Foundations of Black epistemology
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781439925478
- 143992547X
- 9781439925485
- 1439925488
- OCLC:
- 1467671349
- Publisher Number:
- 90102160858
- CIPO000244786
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.