Description
Book SynopsisThis book draws inspiration from the author's own scholarship on race, anti-Blackness, Indigeneity, and anti-colonial studies to offer the personal travelogue of a Black scholar in academia. The author reflects on how he came to a critical consciousness about critical issues of race, anti-Black racism, and anti-colonial studies in the 1980s. The intersecting theme of Black scholars' responsibility for advancing a path of Blackcentricity wedded in Black and African Indigeneities to address global anti-Black racism and anti-Blackness is an important intellectual pursuit.
In the struggle for true liberation, our work for social justice, equity, decolonization, and the anti-colonial end is only possible if we embrace critical solidarity through Indigenous resistance and community building. We must all be part of an on-going struggle; those of us with the privilege of being familiar with history have a responsibility to mentor and be mentored by our young colleagues as a nur
Table of Contents
Preface – Acknowledgement – Introduction – The Beginning – Black Theorizing: Towards a Broader Self and World – Framing the Anti-Colonial for Blackcentricty – Black Lives Matter: Finding My Black African Voice – Indigeneity, Decoloniality and the Anti-Colonial Paradigms: Convergences, Divergences and Synergies – A View of Social Justice Education – Teaching African History to Fight Anti-Black Racism – The Intersections of Anti-Colonial Solidarities – The Black Scholar and Academic Mentorship – The Ugly Face of a New "Diversity Play" – Index.
