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Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2018
Global Psychologies
This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and re... more This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and revolutionary thought as a clinical practitioner, polemicist, and soldier dedicated to nurturing, individual and collective self-emancipatory praxis among the colonized peoples of the Global South. Fanon’s, Black Skin, White Masks refutes Euromodern psychiatric formulations of the Black as innately diseased and, instead, reveals the socially generated phenomenon of anti-black racism as the root of the Black’s perceived mental illness. This sociogenic analysis and decolonial method provides a critical foundation for Fanon’s clinical and theoretical innovations. For Fanon, Black consciousness is the psychological manifestation of liberatory self-actualization; the psychic movement away from the reductive, racial designation of ‘the black,’ to the self-affirming identification of ‘the Black,’ an actional agent catalyzing revolutionary socio-political change.
Introduction to Being Apart, 2015
This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and re... more This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and revolutionary thought as a clinical practitioner, polemicist, and soldier dedicated to nurturing, individual and collective self-emancipatory praxis among the colonized peoples of the Global South. Fanon’s, Black Skin, White Masks refutes Euromodern psychiatric formulations of the Black as innately diseased and, instead, reveals the socially generated phenomenon of anti-black racism as the root of the Black’s perceived mental illness. This sociogenic analysis and decolonial method provides a critical foundation for Fanon’s clinical and theoretical innovations. For Fanon, Black consciousness is the psychological manifestation of liberatory self-actualization; the psychic movement away from the reductive, racial designation of ‘the black,’ to the self-affirming identification of ‘the Black,’ an actional agent catalyzing revolutionary socio-political change.
The Journal of Pan-African Studies, 2011
If one is nearly everywhere told that one is not fully a human being, but one finds oneself strug... more If one is nearly everywhere told that one is not fully a human being, but one finds oneself struggling constantly with human responsibilities--over life and death, freedom and lack thereof ... the moment of theoretical reflection demands engagement with such idiosyncrasy ... including engagements with ontological questions of being--for example, essence, necessity, contingency, and possibility--and teleological questions of where humanity should be going--for example, liberation, humanization, and freedom. --Lewis Gordon Blacks alone are reduced to being a color...And though they are not the only victims of racism, blacks alone have been set apart, degraded and ostracized exclusively on the basis of race and color. Thus the striving to create and affirm our identity and humanity in defiance of racial essentialization and domination forms the common ground of the black liberation struggle. The struggle for identity entails a struggle for a liberated 'black consciousness. --Robert...
EntreLetras, 2018
This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An In... more This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. The author utilizes a transdisciplinary/creolized method of inquiry to highlight the centrality of Africana philosophy to world history, philosophy, the social sciences, and the history of ideas.
Journal of Pan African Studies, Nov 1, 2011
Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature, 2015
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This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An In... more This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. The author utilizes a transdisciplinary/creolized method of inquiry to highlight the centrality of Africana philosophy to world history, philosophy, the social sciences, and the history of ideas.
This article addresses the need for a broader embrace of transdisciplinary scholarship to revive ... more This article addresses the need for a broader embrace of transdisciplinary scholarship to revive the humanities and promote critical pedagogy in the Western academy. Such an embrace of creolized academic inquiry would allow students and academics alike to properly contextualize the rise of neo-fascism and white supremacist violence that have become all too common in today's society.
Being Apart presents a theory and philosophy of Africana literature that analyses the historical,... more Being Apart presents a theory and philosophy of Africana literature that analyses the historical, ontological, and epistemological marginalization of African people and Africana knowledge production in the West during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. By highlighting Africana thinkers’ theoretical resistance to their elisions in Western discourse, this study simultaneously presents critiques of Enlightenment, Hegelian, and Marxist thought as formative ideologies that have bound various forms of Eurocentric and racist thought to the Western canon.
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2018
Global Psychologies
This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and re... more This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and revolutionary thought as a clinical practitioner, polemicist, and soldier dedicated to nurturing, individual and collective self-emancipatory praxis among the colonized peoples of the Global South. Fanon’s, Black Skin, White Masks refutes Euromodern psychiatric formulations of the Black as innately diseased and, instead, reveals the socially generated phenomenon of anti-black racism as the root of the Black’s perceived mental illness. This sociogenic analysis and decolonial method provides a critical foundation for Fanon’s clinical and theoretical innovations. For Fanon, Black consciousness is the psychological manifestation of liberatory self-actualization; the psychic movement away from the reductive, racial designation of ‘the black,’ to the self-affirming identification of ‘the Black,’ an actional agent catalyzing revolutionary socio-political change.
Introduction to Being Apart, 2015
This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and re... more This chapter provides a theoretical analysis of Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric, philosophical, and revolutionary thought as a clinical practitioner, polemicist, and soldier dedicated to nurturing, individual and collective self-emancipatory praxis among the colonized peoples of the Global South. Fanon’s, Black Skin, White Masks refutes Euromodern psychiatric formulations of the Black as innately diseased and, instead, reveals the socially generated phenomenon of anti-black racism as the root of the Black’s perceived mental illness. This sociogenic analysis and decolonial method provides a critical foundation for Fanon’s clinical and theoretical innovations. For Fanon, Black consciousness is the psychological manifestation of liberatory self-actualization; the psychic movement away from the reductive, racial designation of ‘the black,’ to the self-affirming identification of ‘the Black,’ an actional agent catalyzing revolutionary socio-political change.
The Journal of Pan-African Studies, 2011
If one is nearly everywhere told that one is not fully a human being, but one finds oneself strug... more If one is nearly everywhere told that one is not fully a human being, but one finds oneself struggling constantly with human responsibilities--over life and death, freedom and lack thereof ... the moment of theoretical reflection demands engagement with such idiosyncrasy ... including engagements with ontological questions of being--for example, essence, necessity, contingency, and possibility--and teleological questions of where humanity should be going--for example, liberation, humanization, and freedom. --Lewis Gordon Blacks alone are reduced to being a color...And though they are not the only victims of racism, blacks alone have been set apart, degraded and ostracized exclusively on the basis of race and color. Thus the striving to create and affirm our identity and humanity in defiance of racial essentialization and domination forms the common ground of the black liberation struggle. The struggle for identity entails a struggle for a liberated 'black consciousness. --Robert...
EntreLetras, 2018
This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An In... more This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. The author utilizes a transdisciplinary/creolized method of inquiry to highlight the centrality of Africana philosophy to world history, philosophy, the social sciences, and the history of ideas.
Journal of Pan African Studies, Nov 1, 2011
Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature, 2015
Discount Flyer for my award-winning book, Being Apart, good through September 2020
This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An In... more This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon's groundbreaking text, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. The author utilizes a transdisciplinary/creolized method of inquiry to highlight the centrality of Africana philosophy to world history, philosophy, the social sciences, and the history of ideas.
This article addresses the need for a broader embrace of transdisciplinary scholarship to revive ... more This article addresses the need for a broader embrace of transdisciplinary scholarship to revive the humanities and promote critical pedagogy in the Western academy. Such an embrace of creolized academic inquiry would allow students and academics alike to properly contextualize the rise of neo-fascism and white supremacist violence that have become all too common in today's society.
Being Apart presents a theory and philosophy of Africana literature that analyses the historical,... more Being Apart presents a theory and philosophy of Africana literature that analyses the historical, ontological, and epistemological marginalization of African people and Africana knowledge production in the West during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. By highlighting Africana thinkers’ theoretical resistance to their elisions in Western discourse, this study simultaneously presents critiques of Enlightenment, Hegelian, and Marxist thought as formative ideologies that have bound various forms of Eurocentric and racist thought to the Western canon.