Cedric Robinson & the precepts of Black Studies

Africa World Now Project · Nov 10, 2022 · 1h 2m

Black life, that is, the range of thought and behavior of African/a peoples has been the foundation upon which the modern world was built; it, too, has been the foundation upon which the modern world centers its systems and institutions of distain … often collapsing anything that is seen to be other … into its limited definitions of Blackness. For many of us, Black life can primarily be understood as an articulation of marronage; a resistance to the dialectical processes of existing and not existing in the warped imagination of whiteness. To understand the complexities and simplicities of…