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Foundations of Black epistemology : knowledge discourse in Africana philosophy / Adebayo Oluwayomi.

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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

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