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[On] Being Human as Praxis is a major contribution to growing efforts to bring Sylvia Wynter’s critical thought to the fore of contemporary critical social theory. The collection secures Wynter’s status as a heretical intellectual insisting on the relevance of the radical Black/Caribbean decolonial tradition to the systemic crises of the early 21st century planet." -- Anthony Bayani Rodriguez * Antipode *
"In their combination, and in their resonance with Wynter’s intricate and expansive opening meditation on race, science, and human being, these essays present a complex and coherent intellectual project, at once deeply rooted and generously rhizomic." -- Kaiama L. Glover * Contemporary Women's Writing *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living / Katherine McKittrick 1
2. Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations / Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick 9
3. Before
Man: Sylvia Wynter's Rewriting of the Modern Episteme / Denise Ferreira da Silva 90
4. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? / Walter D. Mignolo 106
5. Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment / Bench Ansfield 124
6. Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science / Katherine McKittrick 142
7. Strategic Anti-Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolinization / Nandita Sharma 164
8. Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin / Rinaldo Walcott 183
9. From Masquerade to
Maskarade: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the Rehumanizing Project / Carole Boyce Davies 203
10. "Come on Kid, Let's Go Get the
Thing": The Sociogenic Principle and the
Being of Being Black / Demetrius L. Eudell 226
Bibliography 249
Contributors 275
Index 277
