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Not Only the Master's Tools: African American Studies in Theory and
Practice brings together new essays on the ongoing value of black
thought. In the service of what the editors call epistemological
decolonization of African American studies, the first part examines
the grounding of theoretical reason from various perspectives such
as Africana philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and black
literary theory. The second part offers theoretical explorations of
practical reason as it unfolds in the study of slavery, education,
queerness, politics, and ethics. Responding to Audre Lorde's famous
dictum that "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's
house," the editors and these internationally renowned scholars
ask: "Why not instead devote attention to using those and other
tools to build new, more open houses?"Important for anyone
interested in the ongoing importance of ideas, the book is well
suited for students and scholars of Africana studies, philosophy,
literary theory, educational theory, social and political thought,
and postcolonial studies.
This book looks at how the construction of blacks as unreasonable and illiberal in North American society creates obstacles in efforts to create equity in education. Examining the infamous conflict between a predominantly black community and a predominantly Jewish teacher's union, this story shows the limitations of some class narratives and the problematic misrepresentations of anti-Semitism that impede struggles for racial and social justice in Northeast urban areas.
This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary
society and its impact on the construction of social and political
life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign
continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts
to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences.
Phenomena generated by such efforts include the social
manifestation of monstrosity (disastrous people and other forms of
living things) and an emerging antipolitics in an effort to assert
rule and order. A crucial development is the attack on speech, a
fundamental feature of political life, as manifested by the
increased expectations of categories of people whose containment
calls for shunning and silence.
This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary
society and its impact on the construction of social and political
life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign
continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts
to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences.
Phenomena generated by such efforts include the social
manifestation of monstrosity (disastrous people and other forms of
living things) and an emerging antipolitics in an effort to assert
rule and order. A crucial development is the attack on speech, a
fundamental feature of political life, as manifested by the
increased expectations of categories of people whose containment
calls for shunning and silence. The book closes with an exploration
of the significance of the mythic motif of eliminating monsters
before dawn and its collapse in nihilistic times, where such
conflicts now continue beyond dawn.
Not Only the Master's Tools: African American Studies in Theory and
Practice brings together new essays on the ongoing value of black
thought. Important for anyone interested in the ongoing importance
of ideas, the book is well suited for students and scholars of
Africana studies, philosophy, literary theory, educational theory,
social and political thought, and postcolonial studies.
Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would
better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it
describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the
plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their
capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political
practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once
were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new
political locations they both seek to call “home.” Unlike
multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to
co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people
reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While
indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique
of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of
creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the
eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian
liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged
whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the
prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues,
outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically
legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined.
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of
the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history.
His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political
chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as
Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son
(1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship
throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence,
and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists
have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright,
an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies
surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several
contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to
capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black
person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in
Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of
black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black
subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and
responses to slavery in America. Wright's contributions to American
political thought remain vital and relevant today. The Politics of
Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of
American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret
this influential writer's life and legacy.
Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical
European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of
creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe
from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From
this relatively peripheral location, she was far less parochial
than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers.
Indeed, Luxemburg's work touched on all the burning issues of her
time and ours, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles,
such as those in Poland and Russia, to showing through her analysis
of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial
struggles had to be intertwined, to considerations of state
sovereignty, democracy, feminism, and racism. She thereby offered
reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers
facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of
exploitation through radical economic and social transformation
Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in
her work; the authors of this volume show us that, by creolizing
Luxemburg, we can open up new paths of understanding the
complexities of revolution.
Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical
European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of
creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe
from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From
this relatively peripheral location, she was far less parochial
than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers.
Indeed, Luxemburg's work touched on all the burning issues of her
time and ours, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles,
such as those in Poland and Russia, to showing through her analysis
of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial
struggles had to be intertwined, to considerations of state
sovereignty, democracy, feminism, and racism. She thereby offered
reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers
facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of
exploitation through radical economic and social transformation
Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in
her work; the authors of this volume show us that, by creolizing
Luxemburg, we can open up new paths of understanding the
complexities of revolution.
For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most
articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making
seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy,
C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana
philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he
inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry. Journeys in
Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader outlines the trajectory
of Henry's scholarly career, beginning and ending with his most
recent work on the distinctive character of Africana and Caribbean
philosophy and political and intellectual leadership in his home of
Antigua and Barbuda. In between, the book returns to Henry's early
consideration of the relationship of political economy to cultural
flourishing or stagnation and how both should be studied, and to
the problem with which Henry began his career, of peripheral
development through a focus on Caribbean political economy and
democratic socialism. Henry's canonical work in Anglo-Caribbean
thought draws upon a heavily creolized canon.
For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most
articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making
seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy,
C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana
philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he
inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry. Journeys in
Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader outlines the trajectory
of Henry's scholarly career, beginning and ending with his most
recent work on the distinctive character of Africana and Caribbean
philosophy and political and intellectual leadership in his home of
Antigua and Barbuda. In between, the book returns to Henry's early
consideration of the relationship of political economy to cultural
flourishing or stagnation and how both should be studied, and to
the problem with which Henry began his career, of peripheral
development through a focus on Caribbean political economy and
democratic socialism. Henry's canonical work in Anglo-Caribbean
thought draws upon a heavily creolized canon.
In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian
Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such
tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity"
within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century
philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most
pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories
that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy,
and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies
of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what
particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance
of his work in Caribbean thought and politics. This volume
illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of
reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged
together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided
worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories.
Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization
and the full range of Rousseau's legacies not only in contemporary
Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone
colonies, territories, and larger Global South.
In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian
Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such
tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity"
within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century
philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most
pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories
that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy,
and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies
of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what
particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance
of his work in Caribbean thought and politics. This volume
illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of
reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged
together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided
worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories.
Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization
and the full range of Rousseau's legacies not only in contemporary
Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone
colonies, territories, and larger Global South.
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of
the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history.
His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political
chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as
Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son
(1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship
throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence,
and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists
have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright,
an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies
surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several
contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to
capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black
person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in
Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of
black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black
subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and
responses to slavery in America. Wright's contributions to American
political thought remain vital and relevant today. The Politics of
Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of
American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret
this influential writer's life and legacy.
Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would
better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it
describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the
plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their
capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political
practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once
were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new
political locations they both seek to call “home.” Unlike
multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to
co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people
reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While
indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique
of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of
creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the
eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian
liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged
whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the
prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues,
outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically
legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined.
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