CHAPTER 7. Strategic Anti- Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolonization

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. CHAPTER 1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living 1
5. CHAPTER 2. Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations 9
6. CHAPTER 3. Before Man: Sylvia Wynter’s Rewriting of the Modern Episteme 90
7. CHAPTER 4. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? 106
8. CHAPTER 5. Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment 124
9. CHAPTER 6. Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science 142
10. CHAPTER 7. Strategic Anti- Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolonization 164
11. CHAPTER 8. Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo- politics, and the Caribbean Basin 183
12. CHAPTER 9. From Masquerade to Maskarade: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the Rehumanizing Project 203
13. CHAPTER 10. “Come on Kid, Let’s Go Get the Thing”: The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black / Human 226
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 249
15. CONTRIBUTORS 275
16. INDEX 277