Steve Biko : decolonial meditations of Black consciousness

Steve Biko : decolonial meditations of Black consciousness / Tendayi Sithole.

Moving away from the domain of idolization and veneration, Tendayi Sithole situates Steve Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. Through an exploration of Biko's meditations, Sithole introduces Biko to readers as a decolonial p...

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Main Author: Sithole, Tendayi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Series:Critical Africana studies.
Subjects:
Biko, Steve, > 1946-1977 > Philosophy.
Biko, Steve, > 1946-1977
Black people > Race identity > South Africa.
Apartheid > South Africa.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
Apartheid
Black people > Race identity
Philosophy
Race relations
South Africa > Race relations.
South Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Biko's contested subjectivities
  • Biko: a decolonial philosopher
  • The existential scandal of antiblack racism
  • The mask of bad faith
  • The colonial state: the Freedom Charter and the modicum of freedom
  • The racist state, the law, and its outlawed
  • Biko and the problématique of death
  • Coda: Charting the terrains of the de-colonial turn.

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