Of
Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals created
different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual
and epistemological freedom.
Joshua Myers explores the work of
thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logics of academic
disciplinarity. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni
Cade Bambara, the book focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter,
Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies
approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western
structures of knowledge.
Especially geared toward understanding
the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal
university, Of Black Study allows us to consider the stakes of
intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world.