Blackness and being
The philosophical branch of study concerned with reality, existence, and being.
What is ontology?
This approach to knowledge production argues for "objective" and "detached" scientific research to arrive at truth.
What is positivism?
The second episode of the Haitian Revolution was concerned with securing the following.
What is independence from France?
This cultural movement asks: What does Blackness look like in the future?
What is Afro-futurism?
This country is critical for understanding the African Diaspora given the majority of enslaved Africans were brought there.
Brazil
Michelle M. Wright states that the following Enlightenment thinker framed the Black Other as incapable of grasping language and the importance of laws.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Black feminist epistemology argues for the use of this, rather than debate, to arrive at truth.
What is dialogue?
This group was positioned at the top of the racial and social hierarchy of Saint Domingue prior to the insurrection of 1791.
Who are the Grand Blancs / white planters?
This theory posits that Black people exist in a permanent state of social death.
What is Afro-pessimism?
Black roots refer to Black connections to a real or imagined homeland in this place.
Africa
The following concept is used to describe Black people who exist within a nation but are not subjects in that nation.
What is the Other-from-within?
Feminism, Marxism, and Black studies have produced these types of epistemology, which challenge Western, Eurocentric ways of assessing knowledge.
What are alternative epistemologies?
These laws made it illegal to engage in debt slavery in the U.S., but were rarely enforced.
What are peonage laws?
This field of studies is concerned with Black collectivity and agency, as well as Black people's relationship to power, regardless of national boundaries.
What is Africana Studies?
Identity
This author argued that ontology can't help us understand the existence of Black people, because Blackness can only exist in contrast to whiteness.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
Charles W. Mills argues that subordinated groups have a superior grasp on social reality than dominant groups due to ______, not biological differences.
What are social differences?
This author argues that roots tourism sites on the coasts of Ghana and Senegal make a commodity out of the longing and loss of African descendants from the Americas.
Who is Saidiya Hartman?
Michelle M. Wright defines this concept as "self-actualized agency."
What is subjectivity?
During the Reconstruction Era, a loop hole in the 13th amendment facilitated this form of forced, unpaid labor in the US South.