Search Results for black consciousness

...André Brock This discussion essay offers a Black digital perspective on Lewis R. Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022). Through a reading of Blackness as an informational and ratchet identity, the author contends that the typographic duality of a lowercase blackness and an uppercase Blackness...

...Devyn Spence Benson; Antonio López This essay recovers the history of 1960s and 1970s black movements in Cuba through an examination of works by Afro-Cuban intellectuals and their meetings with Caribbean thinkers to show the coexistence of mestizaje and black consciousness as a defining...

...Nathalie Etoke Lewis R. Gordon investigates myriad questions in Fear of Black Consciousness (2022). He brings out the complexity of Black consciousness and the psychological, ontological, and epistemic upheavals that it provokes in a White world. Gordon examines contradictions, paradoxes...

...Terrence L. Johnson This discussion essay examines Lewis R. Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) and his analysis of ethics and politics within Black political philosophy. Gordon’s interdisciplinary book weaves together film, jazz, Judaism, and Egyptology (for instance) to interrogate...

...Lewis R. Gordon This response essay addresses anti-Blackness and other fears of Black consciousness through discussing analyses and critiques of the author’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) offered by Nathalie Etoke, Terrence L. Johnson, and André Brock. Concepts under discussion include bad...

... critique, Civil Rights and Black Power ideologies, and Rastafarian consciousness animate the efforts of both figures as they attempt to refashion ideas of black political possibility through and against the terms of modern emancipation and citizenship. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Circuits of Political...

...Bedour Alagraa This essay views David Austin’s Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness through the prism of dread history as a way of considering how this text can be understood as a chronicling of the congress while also acting...

...Katherine McKittrick This essay studies Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter's insights...

...Laurie R. Lambert In Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness , David Austin continues his important work as the leading historian of 1960s black Montreal. Moving Against the System illuminates histories that are critical...

...: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness , David Austin has compiled the surviving transcripts of this historic gathering, including the speeches by Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, Stokely Carmichael, and Richard B. Moore, and he provides an extended introduction locating...

...David Austin Rounding out a discussion of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness , the author engages in a dialogue with his respondents about the significance of the congress. This essay assesses the legacy of the 1968 congress...

... consciousness . In the Afro-Caribbean context, this represents a political awareness that emerges in juxtaposition to the devaluation of blackness and the more than four hundred years of slavery, plagued with systemic, structural, explicit, and implicit forms of violence. 6 Enslaved and free peoples’ urge...

... the European inflected Caribbean present. 29 Gilroy's notable silence on Africa in his groundbreaking exegesis on black modernity, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness , exemplifies a similar binary between African “roots” and Caribbean present. His black Atlantic privileges Africa...

... was that it forced us to interrogate our assumptions about our place in Jamaican society and the wider Caribbean. The late 1960s was a period of self-discovery in which the cry “Black Power” animated conversations about racial identity and national consciousness. The rhetoric of “independence” masked the visible...

.... The production of “deportable subjects” is not solely the dominion of the nation-state. Like Ships Passing in the Night: Race, Gender, and the Problem of Black Consciousness for Radical Black Feminists Look even closer. . . . Men in shirtsleeves or rough lumber jackets peer out from occasional...

... of freedom and selfhood. The need for community connectedness is vital in Brodber’s work, as in Harris’s. It moti- vates the research and writing that resulted in Woodside, Pear Tree Grove P.O. (2004) and the village lectures that fed into The Continent of Black Consciousness (2003...

... that he gained what his contemporaries would have called a “negro race consciousness” that superseded his national or ethnic identities. 6 Part of what guides this supposition is a premise derived from early-twentieth-century Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist discourses that claimed that Afro...

... for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at the University of the West Indies, Mona. His recent books include Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (2021), Fear of Black Consciousness (2022), and Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon (2023). R achel G offe...

... number of scholarly articles. His publications include Black Consciousness in South Africa (1986); The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975–1985 (1987); Predatory Rule: State and Civil Society in Africa (1992); Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition...

... this turn a worthy rather than a merely academic one? The study of Caribbean intellectual history gives us more conscious control over the articulation and reproduction of critical ideas about the region over time and space. The histories of ideas, from anticolonialism to black consciousness, from...