Of Black Study by Myers Joshua;

Author:Myers, Joshua;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pluto Press

It is true that race analysis alone is not a valid Black intellectual response to the condition that Black people are in today. Indeed, racism is not all that is wrong with Western society. But race/class analysis together are not enough and capitalism and imperialism ain’t the only deficiencies in Western life and thought.191

His work on fundamental alienation was an attempt to name the real deficiencies.

The wisdom of Africa was right there, all around us. It was present in Jacob Carruthers’s life from the beginning. His approach to Black Study was essentially to bring it along, to allow it to reach intellectual and methodological acuity by linking it to the profound deep well that existed in ancient African history.192 The result was an appreciation for speech as a way to name the Western deficiency responsible for our condition, and to articulate and embody an alternative to what that deficiency occluded, silenced, and ignored through the disciplines of knowledge. It was true intellectual freedom. And it was only this intellectual freedom that would make us “independent of white thought” and “force us to our own traditions where the guidance and wisdom exists … which is the prologue to our actual freedom.”193

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