Black Existential Freedom

Nathalie Etoke

doi:10.5771/9781538157084

Black Existential Freedom

Erschienen 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9781538157084
ISBN print: 978-1-5381-5706-0
ISBN online: 978-1-5381-5708-4
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

The history of slavery, colonization, subjugation, gratuitous violence, and the denial of basic human rights to people of African descent has led Afro-Pessimists to look at black existence through the lens of white supremacy and anti-blackness. Against this trend, Black Existential Freedom argues that Blackness is not inherently synonymous with victimhood. Rather, it is inextricable from existential freedom and the struggle for political liberation.

This book presents an existential analysis of continental and diasporic African experiences through critical interpretations of music, film, and fiction that portray what it means to be human— to persevere in the tension between life and physical, psychological, and social death—for the sake of freedom. With its transdisciplinary perspective and convergence of Africana existential philosophy, African-American Studies, Afro-French Studies, Diaspora Studies, and African studies, this book is not concerned with disciplinary boundaries or certain appropriations of European metaphysics that are committed to a reading of black “non-being.” Black Existential Freedom explores the continuities and discontinuities of black existence and the manifestations and the meanings of blackness within different countries, time periods, and social and political contexts.

Etoke's book empowers the reader to understand and process the complexities of racialized identity in a globalized contemporary society. Ultimately, it is an ode to human survival and freedom.

Schlagworte

Slavery colonialism Political Philosophy Racism Phenomenology Africana philosophy Critical race theory Comparative Philosophy antiblackness African political thought Afro-pessimism sociology of race black cultural studies black existentialism black humanism ethics and moral philosophy

Keywords

nihilism social theory

Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
Preface
- Contents
- Foreword
1–12 Introduction 1–12
13–14 Diasporic Blues 13–14
15–30 Black in Blue 15–30
31–50 I Sing Because I Am Free 31–50
51–60 Free Life from the Ruins 51–60
61–62 Come on Children of the Homeland, the Day of Glory Has Arrived 61–62
63–72 Black in Blue, White, and Red 63–72
73–90 “COLOR” and “COMMUNITY” 73–90
91–108 I Remember Therefore I Suffer / I Remember Therefore I Am 91–108
109–110 From the Depths, I Have Cried 109–110
111–124 Negative Utopia, Would the Sea Cry Out? 111–124
125–142 The Other Nègre 125–142
143–148 Coda 143–148
149–156 Index 149–156
157–160 About the Author 157–160

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