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Of Black Study

Series: Black Critique
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Of Black Study delves into the intellectual journeys of Black thinkers who challenged conventional academic boundaries to forge new ways of understanding and knowledge. Joshua Myers highlights the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson, showing how their work has shaped the development of Black Studies beyond Western epistemologies. Framed by reflective insights on June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, this book examines the ongoing evolution of Black Studies within the context of the neoliberal university, emphasising the quest for conceptual and epistemological freedom.
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An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledge

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This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition - Cornel West.

Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals generated different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom.

Joshua Myers explores the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logics of academic disciplinarity. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, the book focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge.

Especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university, Of Black Study allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745344126

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 January 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 307g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Joshua Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studiesย at Howard University. He is the author ofย Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Traditionย and We are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Protest of 1989.

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