TY - BOOK AU - Joseph,Celucien L. AU - Joseph,Celucien L. AU - Mocombe,Paul C. TI - Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition T2 - Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature SN - 9780367460679 PY - 2021/// PB - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint] KW - Biography, Literature and Literary studies KW - thema KW - Colonialism and imperialism KW - Ethnic groups and multicultural studies KW - Ethnic studies KW - History and Archaeology KW - History: specific events and topics KW - History KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Interest qualifiers KW - Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers KW - Literature: history and criticism KW - Philosophical traditions and schools of thought KW - Philosophy and Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Relating to Indigenous peoples KW - Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people KW - Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests KW - Social and ethical issues KW - Social discrimination and social justice KW - Social groups, communities and identities KW - Society and culture: general KW - Society and Social Sciences KW - Western philosophy from c 1800 KW - African literature KW - Afrocentric Paradigm KW - Afrocentric Scholars KW - Anthropology KW - Black African Origin KW - Black Anthropologist KW - Black Atlantic Tradition KW - Black Public Intellectual KW - Caribbean Discourse KW - Caribbean Intellectual KW - Haiti KW - Haitian History KW - Haitian Identity KW - Haitian Intellectual KW - Haitian People KW - Haitian Revolution KW - Haitian Society KW - Humanism KW - Jean Jacques Dessalines KW - Jean Price Mars KW - Joseph Antenor Firmin KW - Mulattoes KW - Multilineal Evolution KW - Multiple Developmental Trajectories KW - Pan-African Association KW - Pan-African movement KW - Pan-Africanism KW - Paul Topinard KW - racial equality KW - racism KW - scientific racism KW - Social Class Language Game KW - The Equality of the Human Races KW - Toussaint Louverture KW - Unilineal Model KW - Victor Schoelcher N1 - Free-to-read N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98199 ER -