Talk: Black Consciousness: Political Realities [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: All Events, Learning/Education, and Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, February 28, 20221:00pm CST – 2:00pm EST
Lewis R. Gordon
Lewis R. Gordon examines the distinction between black and Black consciousness, and the conception of political life at work in the latter as a commitment to the struggle for liberation and freedom. Lower-case black consciousness, he argues, is the form of consciousness imposed upon people racialized as black in the Euromodern world of global capitalism and colonialism. Upper-case Black consciousness is the active understanding of colonized and racialized peoples as agents of history who, along with all those whom Frantz Fanon characterized as “the Damned of the Earth,” who break the bonds of caricatured two-dimensional history into the dialectical openness of possibility.
This talk is based on Lewis Gordon’s newest book Fear of Black Consciousness just published. At the heart of capitalism and Euromodern colonialism is a set of lies through which humanity is presumed closed in locked binaries of conquerors and conquered and their accompanying forms of invisibility: racialization, primitivization, silencing, exoticization, and (as Boaventura de Sousa and others have shown) epistemicide…
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