Foundations of Black Epistemology : Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oluwayomi, Adebayo.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Foundations of Black Epistemology is Adebayo Oluwayomi's bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Necessity of Framing a Black Epistemological Discourse in Africana Thought

1. Black Epistemology and the Derelictical Crisis in Africana Philosophical Thought

2. The Erasure of the Black Subject in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse of Knowledge

3. Phillis Wheatley: The Unlikely Black Female Epistemologist in the Eighteenth Century

4. Against Mental Darkness: Black Self-Knowledge in Frederick Douglass's Anticolonial Epistemology

5. Seeking Truth: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Pioneering Work in the Sociology of Black Knowledge

6. W.E.B. Du Bois's Development of Positive Epistemology in the Twentieth Century

7. Frantz Fanon on Black Knowledge and the New Foundation for Black Humanity

8. In the Spirit of Biko: Black Consciousness as Anticolonial Epistemology

9. I Am We: Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Intercommunalism as Political Epistemology

10. Kathleen Neal Cleaver on Black Feminism, Black Knowledge, and Black Resistance

Conclusion: The Task and Future of Black Epistemology

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4399-2549-6

OCLC:

1521500473