In Black Enlightenment Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment
from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the work of
such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams
(1697–1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (ca.
1729–1780), and Afro-American poet Phillis Wheatley (ca.
1753–1784) alongside that of their white European contemporaries
David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). By rethinking
the Enlightenment and its canons, Parekh complicates common
understandings of the Enlightenment wherein Black subjects could
only exist in negation to white subjects. Black Enlightenment
points to the anxiety of race in Kant, Hume, and others while at
the same time showing the importance of Black Enlightenment
thought. Parekh prompts us to consider the timeliness of reading
Black Enlightenment authors who become “free” in a society
hostile to that freedom.
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