Graduate Colloquium Series: Adebayo Ogungbure (PHIL) 11/12/19
“Humanizing Blackness: Beyond the Deficit-Epistemological Portraiture of Blackness in the Discourse of Knowledge“ Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Adebayo Ogungbure PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy | 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: This work aims to address the problem of erasure of Blackness from the discourse of knowledge by centering […]
“Humanizing Blackness: Beyond the Deficit-Epistemological Portraiture of Blackness in the Discourse of Knowledge“
Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 4-5 p.m.
Location: 311 Glasscock Building
Adebayo Ogungbure
PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy | 2019-2020 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow
Abstract:
This work aims to address the problem of erasure of Blackness from the discourse of knowledge by centering Blackness as the basis for a Black epistemological inquiry within Africana philosophy. It raises the question in regard to what it means to think of Black thinkers as epistemologists, especially in regard to the creation and dissemination of knowledge in particular areas of inquiry. This implies that epistemological considerations are not the prerogative of thinkers within western philosophical praxis; it is something that Black thinkers have given a great deal of consideration as well within Black intellectual history. This is why in this work, Black thinkers are not considered as commentators, critics, revolutionaries, or insurgents offering “mere ideological” critiques to hegemonic systems of knowledge and practices, but primarily as epistemologists—who are writing about the importance of knowledge towards achieving individual and social transformation in an anti-Black world.
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