Tag: Blackness

Free Download rosalind hampton, "Conceptualizations of Blackness in Educational Research "
English | ISBN: 1032441240 | 2023 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 9 MB
Conceptualizations of Blackness in Education engages the specific junction of educational research and multiple theorizations of Blackness. In this volume, authors narrate how they have come to conceptualize Blackness through reading, writing, research, training, and practice. The contributors reflect a range of personal and political perspectives and experiences, disciplinary roots, and career stages. The stories in each chapter are intended to encourage more theoretically reflexive and vulnerable conversations among scholars of Black Studies in Education committed to reducing inequality in the lives of Black youth. They are not merely stories about theory; the stories are theories themselves.

Free Download Norman Ajari, "Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought"
English | ISBN: 1509555005 | 2024 | 224 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the new and shiny face of racism? In the time of Black Lives Matter, the unswerving dehumanization and killing of Black people form the bedrock of our civilization. But a vast anti-Black collective feeling also manifests itself as a more insidious shared unconscious, hidden from view by the doctrines we deem as emancipatory. This book challenges the simplistic and pacifying aspects of current African American thought. It puts forward alternatives to intersectionality, poststructuralism, and radical democracy, which are often prioritized in the Black analysis of race, gender, and class.

Free Download Vivaldi Jean-Marie, "An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness "
English | ISBN: 0231209762 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Rastafari is an Afrocentric social and religious movement that emerged among Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s and has many adherents in the Caribbean and worldwide today. This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.