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Published: 01 January 1995
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396116-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9611-6
Book Chapter

By John Clifford Holt
Series: The World Readers
Published: 23 March 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394051-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9405-1
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 20 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027140-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2714-0
..., and Frances Cress Welsing—and tempering these voices with that of Cheikh Anta Diop—this chapter disrupts heteropatriarchal trends in traditional vindicationist approaches. Diop's appeal to “sovereign experience” and its complementarity with the womanist concern with Black women's experience as the primordial...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059240-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5924-0
... W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk powerfully countered Locke’s claims for the universal primordiality of communicability and disrupted its basis in whiteness. Du Bois analyzed how racialized media forms and everyday racist acts require Black people to practice double-consciousness...
Book Chapter

By J. Lorand Matory
Published: 26 October 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002437-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0243-7
... Enlightenment. Although the concept of the "fetish" constructs the African as a primordial antitype to the ideals that an emergent European bourgeoisie wished to enforce in Europe, African religion is no less historical than European social theory, and European social theory is no less affected by the material...
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060468-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6046-8
... figured and transfigured into primordial mother water and cargo lane, hydraulic matter and trans-species element, as “blue” consciousness and as integrating biosphere, alpha, and omega off the coasts of the Americas and Asia, as if some dream of trans-indigenous Oceania, or infrastructural apparatus...
Book Chapter

By jennifer susanne leath
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 20 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2714-0
...—this chapter disrupts heteropatriarchal trends in traditional vindicationist approaches. Diop's appeal to “sovereign experience” and its complementarity with the womanist concern with Black women's experience as the primordial noetic source is explained. Through a reoriented vindicationist appeal to Maât...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... In the Andean highlands, there were as many different origin myths as there were native peoples. Each ethnic group sought to establish its importance through such stories, by claiming to be the first people to appear in the world. Many accounts told of primordial ancestors emerging from local...
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5924-0
... powerfully countered Locke’s claims for the universal primordiality of communicability and disrupted its basis in whiteness. Du Bois analyzed how racialized media forms and everyday racist acts require Black people to practice double-consciousness, “always looking at oneself through the eyes of others...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... In the Andean highlands, there were as many different origin myths as there were native peoples. Each ethnic group sought to establish its importance through such stories, by claiming to be the first people to appear in the world. Many accounts told of primordial ancestors emerging from local...