What’s My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals by Grant Farred
Last February 4, Stroncature hosted the presentation of What’s My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals by Grant Farred (2003). The book has recently been published in Italian by Quodlibet (2025), translated by Valeria Dani.
Antonio Gramsci’s democratic vision famously proposed that “all men are intellectuals,” yet definitions of intellectual work still tend to remain confined to elite academic and institutional settings. In this bold and original study, Grant Farred reimagines the figure of the intellectual through four iconic individuals from the African diaspora: American boxer Muhammad…
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