Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition
- Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2021
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Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first "Black anthropologist" and "Black Egyptologist" to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmin's writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernity's imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intellectual evolution of the Aryan-White race. Firmin articulated an alternative way to study global historical trajectories, the political life, human societies and interactions, and the diplomatic relations and dynamics between the nations and the races. Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Anténor Firmin. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century's culture of humanism, and the continuing challenge of race and racism.
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9780367460679 9780367764678 9781003167037
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African literature Afrocentric Paradigm Afrocentric Scholars Anthropology Black African Origin Black Anthropologist Black Atlantic Tradition Black Public Intellectual Caribbean Discourse Caribbean Intellectual Haiti Haitian History Haitian Identity Haitian Intellectual Haitian People Haitian Revolution Haitian Society Humanism Jean Jacques Dessalines Jean Price Mars Joseph Antenor Firmin Mulattoes Multilineal Evolution Multiple Developmental Trajectories Pan-African Association Pan-African movement Pan-Africanism Paul Topinard racial equality racism scientific racism Social Class Language Game The Equality of the Human Races Toussaint Louverture Unilineal Model Victor Schoelcher