... and genres of Black protest. In so doing, it refocuses vindicationism on these rhetorical evidentiary practices, rather than on the mythos of romance and romantic overcoming that has categorized vindicationist narratives of the Haitian Revolution. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc...

... the task of historicizing the present and generating usable African pasts. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 neocolonialism vindicationism modes of production Ujamaa How Europe Underdeveloped Africa opens with the following lines: “This book derives from a concern...

... with an attack on Moore. He begins with a critique of what he presumed Moore’s stance on civilization would look like, assuming that Moore’s project was one of so-called vindicationism, of unearthing the histories of African civilization as a way of redeeming black humanity and placing it on the same level...

... of insurgent Black knowledge forms, affects, and economies, from vindicationism to Negritude to accommodation to liberal to radical; it provided a wide array of intellectual venues like magazines, journals, and conferences in and at which Black knowledges could be published and debated and nurtured...

... and slavery, far too much to exhaust here. Of course, there is always a danger that demonstrating this point can, however unwillingly, contribute to the kind of Marxist vindicationism that Nick Nesbitt is guilty of in his otherwise informative The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and the Revolution...

.... Archives are determined by categories. Thus one purpose of The Black Jacobins , vindicationism, was constructed on grounds of achievement that made black humans within a certain frame.” 46 Sidestepping the problem of archival “facts” or “evidence” of women’s deep participation in the revolution...

... time, to a creole vindicationism that would put the Caribbean at the origins of history, or to a kind of affective voluntarism—a transhistorical “faith in the masses.” I want to suggest that James's comparative approach indexes a deeper, structural relationship between plantation and Fordist society...