Black Decolonial Thought: Conceptualizing Epistemic Violence from Frantz Fanon to Achille Mbembe

It is a truism that colonization has deeply impacted African societies, but we should also acknowledge the multiple ways of thinking and doing that are deployed on the continent. One of the goals of this course is to depart from the dominant epistemology of European and North American scholarship. We will consider African societies and cultures in the diversity of their practices, beliefs, worldviews, and experiences, by using an Afro-oriented canon of knowledge production. If decolonization is the end of political domination of a territory by European empires, the decolonial turn involves a way of thinking about the self, society, and cultures on their own terms (or their ipseity), instead of being always viewed through Eurocentric lenses of reflection and theory imposed by colonization. We will study prominent Black authors who fed the stream of decolonial thought.
Course Attributes: AS HUM; AS LCD; AS SC; EN H

Black Decolonial Thought: Conceptualizing Epistemic Violence from Frantz Fanon to Achille Mbembe

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4103

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