Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

Henry, Paget

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“…The institutionalisation of knowledge production in the anglophone Caribbean was held back until the mid‐20 th century, as local research and higher education were only institutionalised in the 1950s, together with the sovereignty of the formerly British West Indian colonies during the 1960s (see G.K. Lewis, 1985, p. 211). The educational system served for a long time to instruct loyal imperial citizens, and higher education was only possible through mobility to the colonial metropole (however, for the rich tradition of social thought in the West Indies before its institutionalization in the mid‐20 th century, see G.K. Lewis, 1983; Henry, 2000; Bogues, 2003; Benn, 2004; see also Cramer, 2022).…”

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“…Caribbean social scientists have worked extensively on colonial legacies in knowledge production. Contributions in the humanities influenced the global discourse of anti‐colonial thought in the 1940s and from the 1990s onwards (Césaire, 1950; Fanon, 1986; Gilroy, 1993; Hall, 2002; James, 1938), and social scientists elaborated on the importance of the colonial plantation system for Caribbean societies as well as the challenges of Caribbean knowledge production (Henry, 2000; Sankatsing, 2001; Bogues, 2003; Best & Levitt, 2009; Girvan, 2010; L. R. Gordon, 2014; Reddock, 2014; J. A. Gordon et al., 2016; Kamugisha, 2019; Gutiérrez Rodríguez & Reddock, 2021; L.F. Lewis, 2021).…”

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“…5 5 The journals ‘Small Axe’ and ‘Caribbean Quarterly’ stand out as central institutions of the long and ongoing intellectual history of Caribbean thought, among other examples (see G.K. Lewis, 1983; L.F. Lewis, 2021; Henry, 2000; Meeks & Lindahl, 2001; Bogues, 2003; L.R. Gordon, 2014; Reddock, 2014; Kamugisha, 2019, 2021).…”

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“…In his study of the transnational entanglement of the Cuban and Filipino anti-colonial movements B. Anderson too underlines the importance of global networks of intellectuals (seeAnderson, 2007).5 The journals 'Small Axe' and 'Caribbean Quarterly' stand out as central institutions of the long and ongoing intellectual history of Caribbean thought, among other examples (see G.K Lewis, 1983;L.F. Lewis, 2021;Henry, 2000;. Meeks & Lindahl, 2001;Bogues, 2003;L.R.…”

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Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

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2023

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This paper analyses the socio-spatial entanglement of West Indian anti-colonial knowledge production in the mid-20 th century existing between London and the Caribbean. This is interpreted as a case of the paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production in that British imperial policies that were constraining knowledge production in the West Indies were also seen as facilitating anticolonial awareness and work in London by West Indian actors. Research demonstrating the importance of the metropole as a meeting place for global anti-colonial actors is complemented by shifting the focus to the entangled space between London and the West Indies. This article comparatively analyses the academic politics of the British Colonial Office -a spatial dislocation of knowledge production away from the West Indies -and its perception and challenge by Caribbean intellectuals who were temporarily based in London. The analysis builds on contributions by C.L.R. James and S. Wynter and their reflections on the institutionalisation of research in the West Indies and their experiences in London. Overall, I emphasise a relational and symmetrising analysis of knowledge production in imperial contexts that accounts for the entanglement of imperial politics in the metropole and the colonies, and the perception and potential use of these political entanglements by actors in and from colonial contexts.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…Scholars such as Paget Henry and Lewis Gordon have also pointed out the existence of such a tradition. Henry spoke of a Caribbean -and Afro-American -intellectual tradition and a distinct Africana tradition of philosophical self-reflection (Henry 2000). According to Henry, "Africana philosophy [.…”

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Edward W. Blyden’s intellectual tradition: the place of ‘race’ and religion

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Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking

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A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

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Readers familiar with current intellectual debates in Latin America, as well as among Latin Americanists and Latino and Latina scholars in the United States, are also familiar with the concept of "modernity/coloniality." Readers in other disciplines, especially those in Europe, may not be so familiar with these concepts. With this in mind, I will start by spelling out what is at stake here; and why it matters to the understanding of the spirit of this collection, as Sara Castro-Klaren explains in her Introduction.In the many books and essays on "modernity" published since the late 1970s in Europe and in the United States, the word "coloniality" never appears. Modernity seems to be a totality ("what you see is what it is"), with its good and bad aspects, which is at the same time the inevitability of the unfolding of history. Confronted with the illusion of such a totality, scholars and intellectuals trying to fi nd their way have coined terms such as "peripheral modernities," "subaltern modernities," "alternative modernities," "postcolonial modernities," and so forth. Fredric Jameson responded to this diversifi ed scenario with a clear-cut "singular modernity" (Jameson, 2002). If we have a singular modernity, those who dwell in the periphery (intellectually and linguistically, not just physically), who do not belong to the Euro-American singular modernity, have to fi ght for the rights of people and events that have been forgotten, silenced, ignored, and neglected, to argue that, for example, Zara Yacob (a seventeenth-century Ethiopian philosopher) has to be legitimized as a philosopher of modernity (Teodros Kiros, 2005). One could argue (as did Fischer, 2004 and Chapter 15 in this volume) that the Haitian Revolution was disavowed as modernity. Such disavowal had enormous historical, ethical, political, and epistemic (or gnoseological, or whatever word one would like to use to keep to the fore the principles of knowledge that are always implied in any and every conception of the world) consequences.

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Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

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Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

Edward W. Blyden’s intellectual tradition: the place of ‘race’ and religion

Preamble: The Historical Foundation of Modernity/Coloniality and the Emergence of Decolonial Thinking

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