Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms /

This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reduction...

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Main Authors: Dei, George J. Sefa George Jerry Sefa, 1954
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Critical Studies of Education ; 4
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53079-6
Summary: This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism of contemporary polity of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization, particularly when relegated to the colonial power and privileged experiences of settler. The book does so by arguing that this practice perpetuates procedures of violence and social injustice upon Black and African peo
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XVI,180pages).
ISBN: 9783319530796
Index Number: LC189
CLC: G40-052
Contents: Foreword Molefi Asante -- 1 (Re) framing Blackness, Anti-Blackness and Black Solidarities Through Anti-Colonial and Decolonial Prisms -- 2 Towards a (Re)theorization of Blackness, Anti-Blackness and Black Solidarities -- 3 Blackness and Colonial Settlerhood: A Provocation -- 4 So Why Do that Dance of Anti-Blackness? 5 A Call to a New Dance: Decolonizaation and Indigeneity as International Categories -- 6 Counter-Visioning Black Education: Rhetorical Turns and Critical Discursive Shifts -- 7 Learning from the Experiences of Being a Black Body in the Western Academy: Countering Hegemonic Thoug